MARCOS' SUCCESSOR is Corazon AQUINO, a Filipino politician who served as the 11th President of the Philippines from 1986 to 1992. She was the first female president in the country's history and is widely regarded as the 'Mother of Philippine Democracy'. AQUINO was the widow of Senator Benigno AQUINO Jr., an opposition leader who was assassinated upon his return to the Philippines in 1983. Following the People Power Revolution, she was installed as president and led the nation through a period of political and economic turmoil.