Volume 39, Number 13 · July 16, 1992
Cory Lives!
By James Fenton
As the election campaign drew to a close in the Philippines in early May, the received wisdom in the world's press seemed to be that Cory Aquino's reputation was at its nadir, that 'People Power was dead' and that the opportunities provided by the 1986 February Revolution had been thrown away. But on May 11, election day itself, that judgment (the joint effort of local pundits, briefing diplomats, and revenant hacks) was given a light flick of the wrist: suddenly Cory had achieved what she had set out to do. She had established, preserved, and handed over a working democracy. The election had been unusually peaceful and unusually clean. Cory, so it was said, was 'the real winner in the polls.'
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