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Politics and Administration during Marcos Regime

 1970 Battle of Mendiola
 1971 Constitutional Convention
 1971 Bombing in Plaza Miranda
 1972 Declaration of Martial Law
 1983 Aquino Assacination
 1986 Marcos Flees the Philippines

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Battle of Mendiola
Battle of Mendiola considered the most violent night in the city’s post-war history. Four
days after opening of the 7th Congress, the protester, students, marched back to Congress
occurred on January 30,1970.

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Constitutional Convention
First Constitutional Convention. Marcos wanted to somehow create a third term of
presidency. . He wanted to stay in his power longer, but the majority of the parliament
voted against Marcos' request.
Bombing in Plaza Miranda
The bombing occurred during a political rally of the Liberal Party at Plaza Miranda in
Quiapo. It killed nine persons and injured 95 others, including many prominent Liberal
Party politicians.

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Declaration of Martial Law
On September 23, 1972, Ferdinand Marcos spoke to the nation by television and by radio
to make it known that he had declared Martial Law in the Philippines. To prevent violent
overthrow of the government and to save republic and form new society.Martial Law is a
power of the President as Commander-in-Chief of all Philippine armed forces meant for
times of crisis and for the security of people and expediting justice.

 Media - Marcos silenced public criticism and controlled the information that the people
had access to by shutting down competing voices and setting up a media outlet that was
under his control. He exerted considerable effort to exercise control over it.
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 Military - President Marcos has transformed the military into a major force in Philippine
politics. Formerly modest both in numbers and in influence, the Armed Forces of the
 Philippines has tripled in size under Mr. Marcos, and its commanders have acquired
unprecedented political power.
 Economy –
Early in the 1970s, a general rise in global raw material prices aided in improving
economic performance; real GNP increased on average by over 7% yearly in the five
years following the imposition of martial law, compared to just under 5% annually in the
five years prior. The performance of agriculture has improved since the 1960s.

In the latter half of the 1970s, heavy borrowing from transnational commercial banks,
multilateral organizations, and the United States and other countries masked problems
that had begun to appear on the economic horizon with the slowdown of the world
economy. By 1976 the Philippines was among the top 100 recipients of loans from the
World Bank and was considered a "country of concentration."

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Aquino Assassination
Benigno "Ninoy" Aquino Jr., a former Philippine senator, was assassinated on Sunday,
August 21, 1983, on the tarmac of Manila International Airport.
Marcos Flees the Philippines
Ferdinand Marcos flees to Guam after almost all of the people in the Philippines opposed
him and wanted him to resign.