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===EDSA Revolution===
{{see also|People Power Revolution}}
Due to what was popularly believed to be electoral fraud during the [[1986 Philippine presidential election]],<ref name="malacanangmuseumelection">{{cite web |title=Elections of 1986 |url=http://malacanang.gov.ph/74713-elections-of-1986/ |access-date=August 4, 2021 |website=Malacanang Presidential Museum and Library |language=en-US |archive-date=June 21, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210621073524/http://malacanang.gov.ph/74713-elections-of-1986/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> February 1986 saw a period of uncertainty.<ref>{{cite web|title=Speech of President Aquino at the anniversary of Tagumpay ng Bayan, February 16, 2012 (English translation)|url=https://www.officialgazette.gov.ph/2012/02/16/speech-of-president-aquino-at-the-anniversary-of-tagumpay-ng-bayan-february-16-2012-english-translation/|url-status=live|access-date=May 18, 2021|website=Official Gazette of the Republic of the Philippines|date=February 16, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210518094855/https://www.officialgazette.gov.ph/2012/02/16/speech-of-president-aquino-at-the-anniversary-of-tagumpay-ng-bayan-february-16-2012-english-translation/ |archive-date=May 18, 2021 }}</ref><ref name="schock1999">{{Cite journal|last=Schock|first=Kurt|date=1999|title=People Power and Political Opportunities: Social Movement Mobilization and Outcomes in the Philippines and Burma|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/3097105|journal=Social Problems|volume=46|issue=3|pages=355–375|doi=10.2307/3097105|jstor=3097105|issn=0037-7791}}</ref> A boycott movement and plans for massive civilian protests were in place.<ref name="roadtoEDSA">{{cite web|last=Cruz|first=Elfren S.|title=The road to EDSA|url=https://www.philstar.com/opinion/2017/02/23/1674106/road-edsa|access-date=May 18, 2021|website=Philstar.com}}</ref>

During the chaos, the [[Reform the Armed Forces Movement]] headed by then Defense Minister [[Juan Ponce Enrile]] decided to stage a military coup against Marcos.<ref name="inqday1">{{Cite news |last=Research |first=P. D. I. |date=February 13, 2014 |title=EDSA Day 1: February 22, 1986 |language=en |newspaper=[[Philippine Daily Inquirer]] |url=https://www.inquirer.net/118117/edsa-people-power-revolution-day-1-february-22-1986/ |access-date=August 4, 2021}}</ref> The plot was uncovered,<ref>{{Cite news |last=Lingao |first=Ed |title=A 25-year rebellion |language=en-US |work=[[Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism]] Website |url=https://old.pcij.org/stories/a-25-year-rebellion/ |access-date=August 4, 2021}}</ref> however, and the forces involved became trapped in [[Camp Aguinaldo]] in [[Quezon City]]. They then sought and received the support of [[Philippine Constabulary]] chief and AFP vice-chief of staff Lt. General [[Fidel V. Ramos]] in the neighboring [[Camp Crame]], but even with Ramos' defection, their forces were trapped in the two neighboring camps.

Manila's Catholic Archbishop, [[Jaime Sin]], went on [[Radio Veritas]] and called for people to go to the section of [[Epifanio de los Santos Avenue]] in between the two camps and help protect the rebel forces.<ref name="inqday1"/> Since civilian groups were already planning massive protests in relation to the election results, a large crowd was able to gather and prevent Marcos' forces from attacking camps Aguinaldo and Crame.<ref name="schock1999" /><ref name="roadtoEDSA" /> This civilian uprising, which would come to be known as the [[People Power Revolution]], led to various units of the AFP refusing orders to fire on the camps and the civilians protecting them, and led to the removal Marcos from power.<ref name="AprilCarter2013">{{Cite journal |last=Carter |first=April |date=2013 |title=People Power Since 1980: Examining Reasons for its Spread, Success and Failure |journal=Sicherheit und Frieden (S+F) / Security and Peace |volume=31 |issue=3 |pages=145–150 |doi=10.5771/0175-274x-2013-3-145 |jstor=24233235 |issn=0175-274X|doi-access=free }}</ref><ref name="Claudio2013">{{Cite book |last=Claudio |first=Lisandro E. |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/864093220 |title=Taming people's power : the EDSA revolutions and their contradictions |date=2013 |isbn=978-971-550-655-7 |publisher=[[Ateneo de Manila University Press]] |location=Quezon City |oclc=864093220}}</ref> [[Corazon Aquino]] was then installed as the new president of the Philippines.<ref>{{cite web |title=Corazon Aquino {{!}} Biography & Facts {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Corazon-Aquino |access-date=March 1, 2022 |website=www.britannica.com |language=en}}</ref>

Shortly after midnight on February 26, five army trucks of troops under the command of Fidel Ramos arrived in Malacañang Palace to secure it after Ferdinand Marcos had left, and various individuals had entered it, marking the end of Marcos' reign, and placing the palace under the control of the [[Provisional Government of the Philippines (1986–1987)|Provisional Government of the Philippines]] until a new constitution could be enacted a year later, in 1987.<ref>{{cite news |author=Fox Butterfield |url=http://www.nytimes.com/1986/02/26/world/fall-marcos-behind-presidential-walls-after-marcos-abandons-his-palace-filipinos.html |title=The Fall Of Marcos - Behind The Presidential Walls - After Marcos Abandons His Palace, Filipinos Shout, 'This Is Ours Now!' |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=February 26, 1986 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150524193702/http://www.nytimes.com/1986/02/26/world/fall-marcos-behind-presidential-walls-after-marcos-abandons-his-palace-filipinos.html |access-date=August 2, 2022|archive-date=May 24, 2015 }}</ref>