The then Vice President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo assumed Choosing the office of President .

A press secretary to President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo expressed Expressing_publicly confidence that the bombing would not collapse Destroying peace negotiations Communication between the government and the MILF .

President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has acknowledged Statement the divisive nature of the two terminologies by saying Telling in one statement that she hoped to be the president of `` EDSA II and EDSA III . ''

This occurred Presence after the government claimed Statement that it foiled Removing an alleged coup Change_of_leadership d'état attempt against the rule of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo earlier that same day .

Estrada resigned Process_end and was succeeded Change_of_leadership by his Vice-President , Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo , who was sworn into office by then-Chief Justice Hilario Davide Jr. at around noon on January 20 , 2001 , several hours before Estrada fled Malacañang Palace .

It should also be noted Statement that opinion was divided Change during EDSA II about whether Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo as the incumbent Vice President should be President if Joseph Estrada was ousted ; many groups who participated in EDSA II expressly stated that they did not want Arroyo for president either , and some of them would later participate in EDSA III .

More calls for resignation came from Manila Cardinal Archbishop Jaime Sin , the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines , former Presidents Corazon Aquino and Fidel Ramos , and Vice President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo ( who had resigned her cabinet position of Secretary of the Department of Social Welfare and Development ) .

The mutineers called Name_conferral for the ousting of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo , and seized Conquering the Rizal function room on the second floor of the Manila Peninsula Hotel along Ayala Avenue .