MANILA, Philippines, Sept. 9 (UPI) -- Philippine Sen. Benigno Aquino III, son of the late Corazon Aquino, Wednesday announced his candidacy for president, the office his mother once held.
The 49-year-old candidate said he wants to continue the "people power" pro-democracy movement of his mother, who died Aug. 1 of cancer. She was elected president in 1986, the first woman in the Philippines to hold that post.