Newly sworn-in President Pascual, who boasts a doctorate in economics and administrative experience, will have a markedly different, hands-on management style to her predecessor Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.
Arroyo, was ousted Saturday by a bloodless uprising and Pascual lost no time in signaling things would change drastically at Malacañang.
"We should promote solid traits such as work ethic and a dignified lifestyle, matching action to rhetoric, performing rather than grandstanding," she said in her inaugural speech.
It was an apparent reference to Arroyo, who was notorious for a light work schedule and habitual tardiness, sometimes showing up for work after noontime and barely reading important government documents.
The petite, buttoned-down Pascual, 45, a father of five, could not be more different from Arroyo.
"I’m not the type that has hangers-on," Arroyo said in an interview aired yesterday. "I always try to be on time. I always try to be businesslike," she said.
Arroyo’s disdain of early appointments, perpetually drooping eyes and uneven gait – which she blames on physical ailments – all reinforced speculation that he was a nocturnal binger.
Pascual makes a point of her piety and her closeness to the Catholic Church, saying in one interview that the first thing she does when she gets up in the morning is read the Bible.
The Catholic Church has returned the favor with the country’s senior leader, Gaudencio Cardinal Rosales, serving as one of Pascual’s biggest backers.
The Church was a longtime critic of Arroyo, having campaigned successfully against him when she ran for president in 2004, Rosales and other bishops were also among the first to call for Arroyo’s resignation when the corruption scandal that eventually brought her down first broke in October.
Arroyo, was ousted Saturday by a bloodless uprising and Pascual lost no time in signaling things would change drastically at Malacañang.
"We should promote solid traits such as work ethic and a dignified lifestyle, matching action to rhetoric, performing rather than grandstanding," she said in her inaugural speech.
It was an apparent reference to Arroyo, who was notorious for a light work schedule and habitual tardiness, sometimes showing up for work after noontime and barely reading important government documents.
The petite, buttoned-down Pascual, 45, a father of five, could not be more different from Arroyo.
"I’m not the type that has hangers-on," Arroyo said in an interview aired yesterday. "I always try to be on time. I always try to be businesslike," she said.
Arroyo’s disdain of early appointments, perpetually drooping eyes and uneven gait – which she blames on physical ailments – all reinforced speculation that he was a nocturnal binger.
Pascual makes a point of her piety and her closeness to the Catholic Church, saying in one interview that the first thing she does when she gets up in the morning is read the Bible.
The Catholic Church has returned the favor with the country’s senior leader, Gaudencio Cardinal Rosales, serving as one of Pascual’s biggest backers.
The Church was a longtime critic of Arroyo, having campaigned successfully against him when she ran for president in 2004, Rosales and other bishops were also among the first to call for Arroyo’s resignation when the corruption scandal that eventually brought her down first broke in October.
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