Philippines: Ousted Leader Joseph Estrada Congratulates President Gloria Arroyo

Record ID: 4286

  • Title: Philippines: Ousted Leader Joseph Estrada Congratulates President Gloria Arroyo
  • Date: 19th May 2001
  • Summary: Ousted Philippine leader Joseph Estrada has congratulated President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo after her coalition party's apparent victory in the senatorial race. Arroyo, who visited Estrada in a military hospital on May 19, 2001, in turn, congratulated Estrada for the "seeming victory" of his wife Luisa, nicknamed "Loi", in the senatorial contests (her victory was confirmed on June 5). Earlier, a private poll said that with votes from more than half of the over 200,000 precincts nation-wide tabulated in an unofficial count, Arroyo's coalition was leading in eight of 13 senatorial contests while Estrada's Power of the Masses party was ahead in four. Among the four leading opposition candidates in the vote count by the National Movement for Free Elections (NAMFREL) was Estrada's wife Luisa.
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  • Location: PHILIPPINES MANILA
  • Reuters ID: LDL0012FIRK17
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