The formidable politician certainly demonstrated this in June and July as she clung on to power with tenacity, even as a tape of her talking inappropriately to an election official in 2004 was made public and major upheavals followed.
Interviewed in May, just before the crisis blew up, the president, a Georgetown University and University of the Philippines graduate, said she is a mixture of both technocrat and politician but that the problematic state of the economy necessitates a rather rigorous approach.
