The single six-year term of Benigno Aquino III, which in 2014 moved from mid-term late-term acts as a good test of this resilient and negative continuity assumption. President Benigno "PNoy' Aquino Ill personally reaffirms political elite continuity being the son of the Philippines' first post-Marcos president, Corazon Aquino, and the leading anti-Marcos politician, Benigno Aquino Jr., as well as the present scion of one of the most powerful Philippine political dynasties. His popularity in the 2010 elections, when he won the largest plurality of all post was more from the popular attraction Marcos presidential elections, derived much of his family name and enhanced by sympathy from the death of his mother in August 2009 than by his unimpressive twelve-year record as a legislator.