Benigno Aquino III.
Benigno Simeon "Noynoy" Cojuangco Aquino III. (Born February 8, 1960 in Manila ; † June 24, 2021 ibid) was a Filipino politician and was President of the Republic of the Philippines . He was elected 15th Filipino President in the election on May 10, 2010 and was in office until 2016.
biography
Benigno Aquino III. was the only son of former President Corazon Aquino and the murdered former Senator Benigno Aquino, Jr. , along with four daughters .
Noynoy Aquino studied economics at the Ateneo de Manila University and graduated in 1981 with a Bachelor of Arts . He then lived in exile with his family in Boston, USA . After his father's murder in August 1983, he returned to the Philippines, but was initially not politically active.
In February 1986, his mother Corazon Aquino became the new President of the Philippines. Eighteen months later, on August 28, 1987, Noynoy Aquino got into a shootout during an attempted coup by rebel leader Gregorio Honasan against his mother and was seriously injured by five shots. One of the bullets could not be removed and was stuck in his throat for the rest of his life.
From the late 1990s, Noynoy Aquino took political action. In 1998 he became a member of the Philippine Partido Liberal and in the same year he was elected to parliament as a congressman , where he represented the 2nd district of Tarlac Province in the House of Representatives until 2007 . On May 15, 2007 he was elected to the Senate , the upper house of the Philippine Parliament, and was a member until his election as President in 2010.
On September 9, 2009, 40 days after the death of his mother Corazon Aquino, he announced that he would run for the 2010 presidential election. Senator Mar Roxas , who also belongs to the Liberal Party, had previously withdrawn his candidacy in favor of Aquinos. The counting of the votes in the presidential election of May 10, 2010 was officially completed on June 8, 2010 and Noynoy Aquino was proclaimed future president by Congress on June 9. With over 15.2 million votes, he gained a lead of around 5.7 million votes over the second-placed candidate Joseph Estrada . The swearing-in and assumption of office as the 15th President of the Philippines took place on June 30, 2010.
Noynoy Aquino was a cousin of the second degree of the politician Gilberto Teodoro , who took also a candidate in the presidential elections of 2010. However, the two were members of different parties.
Aquino was the first president of the Philippines to be unmarried and to have no children. But he had relationships with at least five women (one after the other) who were each significantly younger than him. In 2013 he was included in the annual list of the One Hundred Most Influential People by the English-language Time Magazine .
Noynoy Aquino died on June 24, 2021 at the age of 61. He had suffered from various illnesses since 2019.
See also
Trivia
During his tenure as president, Aquino was mostly referred to in the media as PNoy ( P resident Noy noy). Pronounced Pinoy , the term means colloquially simultaneously Filipino or Filipino .
literature
- Benigno S. Aquino III. , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 37/2010 of September 14, 2010, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Filipino ex-president Benigno «Noynoy» Aquino died. In: Nau.ch . June 24, 2021, accessed June 24, 2021 .
- ↑ a b abs-cbnnews.com Noynoy ready to run for president (Engl.)
- ↑ derstandard.at: Another Aquino for the Philippines
- ↑ NZZ : Aquino clear winner of the presidential election in the Philippines
- ↑ tagesschau.de: Aquino declares war on corruption ( Memento from July 3, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (Retrieved June 30, 2010)
- ↑ diepresse.com Opinion: Aquino son does not want to power (August 11, 2009)
- ↑ inquirer.net Noynoy Aquino also rises . Retrieved on March 13, 2010
- ↑ noynoy.ph About Noynoy ( Memento from March 15, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Retrieved on March 13, 2010 (English)
- ↑ Focus : Benigno Aquino sworn in as new President , June 30, 2010.
- ↑ abs-cbn-news: Noynoy unfazed cousin Gibo's presidential bid from September 16, 2009.
- ↑ The TIME 100 from 2013 , accessed on January 9, 2014
- ^ Former president Benigno Aquino III dies at 61. Retrieved on June 24, 2021 (English).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Aquino, Benigno III. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Aquino, Benigno Simeon Cojuangco; Aquino, Noynoy |
| SHORT DESCRIPTION | Filipino politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 8, 1960 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Manila |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 24, 2021 |
| PLACE OF DEATH | Manila |