Estrada to run if opposition won’t unite
INQUIRER.net
First Posted 12:50:00 11/19/2008
Filed Under: Elections, Politics, Eleksyon 2010
MANILA, Philippines -- Former president Joseph Estrada has announced his decision to run again “if the opposition would not unite.”
Estrada made this declaration in a television interview Wednesday when asked whether he would run in 2010, saying this will be his “last option.”
“If the opposition does not unite, I will run. That’s my last option. If they don’t unite, I will run,” said Estrada who was ousted in a popular revolt in 2001 and replaced by his then vice president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.
At the same time, Estrada denied that he had a hand in the ouster of Senator Manuel Villar as Senate president.
Estrada was convicted of plunder last year but was pardoned by Arroyo months later.
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