Erap wishes for clean polls, gets QC Lakas chief backing
By Jason Faustino and Gerry Baldo
04/19/2010
Former President Joseph “Erap” Ejercito Estrada shares food with the people who believe in his cause — the masses, with whom he will dedicate the celebration of his 73rd birthday today in a resettlement area for former San Juan residents who call their home “Erap City.”
He will also be partaking lunch with poor folk from Payatas afterwards, as he shares with them his birthday wish of a clean and honest elections which he said would rectify the many historical mistakes which the Philippines had suffered in recent years, including the 2004 elections, which are widely believed as marred by massive cheating that favored Gloria Macapagal Arroyo.
“The coming elections are so important, not only for me as a candidate but for the country. The last presidential elections, where my best friend Fernando Poe, Jr. was cheated, really put our democratic systems in question. So, this coming elections must show that our democracy is not a joke, that we have the capacity to respect the sovereign will of the people expressed through the ballot,” Estrada said.
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/headlines/20100419hed3.html
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