Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo repeated her earlier welcome of impeachment July 26 — the day after she delivered her State of the Nation Address, new impeachment charges were filed and 40,000 opposition demonstrators called for her to leave office. Arroyo has some political cover in what promises to be a drawn-out impeachment and the constitutional revisions she has now embraced. The two processes are closely linked in Arroyo's strategy. The impeachment process gives Arroyo shelter from the people power demonstrations that brought down previous Presidents Ferdinand Marcos and Joseph Estrada because the maneuvering necessary to mobilize street demonstrations cannot gain traction while the constitutional process continues. Her acceptance of calls for constitutional revisions, meanwhile, has grown Arroyo's support base among the Philippines' politicians.