A mid the growing disenchantment with President Benigno Aquino 3rd, reaching a high point last week with the launch of the so-called National Transformation Council (NTC) grouping religious, civil society, political and other sectoral entities, it may be timely to reprint portions of a three-part article published a year ago pondering the question: Can Aquino fall? The excerpt follows:

The first part of this article, published on Monday, recalled that the Arroyo government not only survived political and economic crises unlikely to be repeated in gravity and combination. It even managed to lift economic growth, nearly zero the budget deficit, and strengthen the peso. Hence, the current regime should weather much lesser problems, especially with its broad public, political and media support, and far greater budgetary resources.

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