Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
14th President of the Philippines
In office January 20, 2001 – June 30, 2010
Vice President	Teofisto Guingona Noli de Castro
Preceded by	Joseph Estrada
Succeeded by	Benigno Aquino III
12th Vice President of the Philippines
In office June 30, 1998 – January 20, 2001
President	Joseph Estrada
Preceded by	Joseph Estrada
Succeeded by	Teofisto Guingona
Secretary of National Defense Acting
In office November 30, 2006 – February 1, 2007
Preceded by	Avelino Cruz
Succeeded by	Hermogenes Ebdane
In office September 1, 2003 – October 2, 2003
Preceded by	Angelo Reyes
Succeeded by	Eduardo Ermita
Secretary of Social Welfare and Development
In office June 30, 1998 – October 12, 2000
President	Joseph Estrada
Preceded by	Corazon Alma de Leon
Succeeded by	Dulce Saguisag
Member of the House of Representatives from Pampanga's 2nd district
Incumbent
Assumed office June 30, 2010
Preceded by	Mikey Arroyo
Senator of the Philippines
In office June 30, 1992 – June 30, 1998
Personal details
Born	María Gloria Macaraeg Macapagal April 5, 1947 (age 67)[1] San Juan, Philippines
Political party	LDP (Before 1998) KAMPI (1997–2009) Lakas-CMD I (1998–2009) Lakas-CMD II (2009–present)
Spouse(s)	Jose Miguel Arroyo
Children	Mikey Evangelina Lourdes Diosdado
Alma mater	Georgetown University Assumption College Ateneo de Manila University University of the Philippines, Diliman
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Website	Official website

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo (born April 5, 1947) is a Filipino politician who served as the 14th President of the Philippinesfrom 2001 to 2010, as the 12th Vice President of the Philippines from 1998 to 2001, and as member of the House of Representatives representing the 2nd District of Pampanga since 2010. She was the country's second female president (after Corazón Aquino), and the daughter of former PresidentDiosdado Macapagal. Arroyo is also the first duly elected female Vice President of the Philippines.^[2]

Arroyo was a former professor of economics at Ateneo de Manila University where Benigno Aquino III was one of her students. She entered government in 1987, serving as assistant secretary and undersecretary of the Department of Trade and Industryupon the invitation of President Corazon Aquino. After serving as a senator from 1992 to 1998, she was elected to thevice presidency under President Joseph Estrada, despite having run on an opposing ticket. After Estrada was accused of corruption, she resigned her cabinet position as Secretary of Social Welfare and Development and joined the growing opposition to the president, who faced impeachment. Estrada was soon forced from office by the EDSA Revolution of 2001, and Arroyo was sworn into the presidency by Chief Justice Hilario Davide, Jr. on January 20, 2001. She was elected to a full six-year presidential term in the controversial May 2004 Philippine elections, and was sworn in on June 30, 2004. Following her presidency she was elected to the House of Representatives, making her the second Philippine president—after José P. Laurel—to pursue a lower office after their presidency.

On November 18, 2011, Arroyo was arrested following the filing of criminal charges against her for electoral fraud. She was held at the Veterans Memorial Medical Center in Quezon City under charges of electoral sabotage.^[3][4] but released on bail in July 2012. She was re-arrested while in hospital on charges of misuse of $8.8 million in state lottery funds in October 2012.