Gloria Macapagal Arroyo appealed for calm yesterday amid allegations of cheating and as officials braved violence to count votes from Philippine elections that look set to give her six more years as president.
Arroyo, careful not to celebrate prematurely after doing well in exit polls, asked Filipinos for patience during an official counting process that will take at least three weeks and which has proved vulnerable to cheating and violence in the past.
"The president is reaching out to all Filipinos to leave any residual rancor or animosity behind and buckle down to work and normalcy," her spokesman Ignacio Bunye said in a statement.
Underlining the problems facing those counting the votes, police said unidentified gunman staged three separate attacks in the northern Philippines on Monday and Tuesday, stealing ballot boxes, trying to burn an election office and killing one policeman.
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2004/05/13/2003155278Take a look at her military carrying in the ballot boxes!
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