At midnight on Tuesday, as monsoon rains lashed the shoddy pavements, tens of thousands of ordinary Filipinos waited patiently outside Manila Cathedral to file past the coffin of Corazon Aquino, the queen of people power. Standing just a few metres from the open casket, Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III, a senator and Aquino’s only son, told me: “My mother actualised that which we consider the ideal. She took over from dictatorship, and one of her first acts was to call for a constitution that would curtail her own powers.”
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