MANILA, Philippines?Senator Ma. Ana Consuelo "Jamby" Madrigal has sought Divine intervention at the Minor Basilica of the Black Nazarene in Quiapo, Manila, before embarking on a three-month "non-trapo" campaign for the presidency.

Accompanied by French husband Eric Jean Claude Valade and members of what she calls her "lean but efficient team," Madrigal attended on Tuesday the 10 a.m. mass at the Catholic church on Plaza Miranda.

Madrigal, who is determined to pull off a one-woman show in her presidential bid, disclosed she "got a note from (Quiapo parish) Monsignor Clemente Ignacio who said they'll be praying for me."

"Then there's this woman selling rosaries and scapulars who gave me a scapular for free and also wished me good luck. Her gesture means a lot to me," she said.

Madrigal, clad in her signature neon-green blazer, later walked the entire length of busy Carriedo Street, shaking hands with shoppers and street vendors.

Later in an interview, Madrigal disclosed she has been "fasting for two weeks now and praying for clean elections."

"I believe that any little sacrifice will reach God directly," she noted.

According to Madrigal, she was "making panata, hoping a miracle will happen, that there's going to be clean elections. And no matter what the administration does, cheating won't happen."

Madrigal plans to continue fasting "in the next two weeks" and might "even ask the nation to join me to fast for good elections."

Earlier in a text message, Madrigal told the Philippine Daily Inquirer she would definitely include some wet markets nationwide in her campaign sorties "as I have done in my previous campaigns (2001 and 2004 senatorial polls)."

"I may be a vegetarian but I have no prejudice against meat eaters," she said.

On Monday, Madrigal drew jeers at the INQUIRER-sponsored presidential debate at UP-Diliman when she said a kilo of galunggong cost only P60.

On Tuesday, she said "I really would not know the price (of galunggong)."

"I love wet markets because of the vegetables they sell. I go to a lot of markets selling organic products, like the one in Katipunan (Quezon City). In our small farm in Tagaytay, we grow vegetables," she pointed out.

Madrigal is running without a vice presidential and senatorial slate to "prove that I am not a traditional presidential aspirant, but a candidate of the people."

"This would allow all like-minded candidates and people to unite under a shared and genuine progressive vision and platform of government based on principled politics," she said.

She said she would like to go on a solo presidential campaign so as not to be indebted to any political party or big businessmen who back other candidates in the May elections.

According to Madrigal, her family has "left me enough to run a decent campaign."