MANILA, Philippines — Former President Benigno S. Aquino III would have wanted Filipinos to focus on how to defend and protect the country’s “fragile democracy” and not just mourn his passing, his ally, Senator Francis Pangilinan, said Friday.
“I think what the [former] president would want us to do today and probably reflect upon with his death is how do we defend, preserve our democracy, strengthen our democracy,” Pangilinan, president of the Liberal Party, said in an interview on ABS-CBN News Channel.
Aquino passed away in his sleep on Thursday morningdue to renal disease secondary to diabetes, according to his sisters. He was 61.
Aquino was the only son of Ph…
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