Several protests organised by activist groups to demonstrate against attempts by the current Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s administration to change certain parts of the constitution in the lead-up to the anniversary of the historic EDSA uprising in 1986.

Critics say the current President is aiming to bring in amendments to the 1987 Constitution which could alter presidential term limits and the form of government.

Growing public discontent with what many Philippinos claimed was a brutal regime of the current president’s father then-President Ferdinand Marcos eventually resulted in a popular uprising that ousted him on Feb. 25, 1986, and exiled him and his family to Hawaii.

The date of that “People Power Revolution”—also known as the EDSA Revolution—had since been recognized as an annual national holiday up until this year when Marcos cancelled it drawing accusations of attempts at “historical revisionism”.

Aljazeera.