Corazon Aquino succeeded Marcos as President in 1986 after the latter's ouster as a consequence of the People Power Revolution. Aquino had promised to assist the drive for autonomy in Mindanao and Sulu. In preparation for formal talks with the Aquino government, the Organization of Islamic Conference and the Muslim World League tried to unite the MNLF and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, which had broken from the MNLF in 1977, so as to present a single Moro panel.[5]