Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 16, 1998, Winnipeg, Manitoba Saturday free May a11 with half the votes Era gets presidential by Dan Lett staff reporter an Juan Only half the votes have been i counted in National elections but vice pres Joseph Era Estrada is beginning in look and behave very the latest results from the National citizens movement for free elections which Jias been engaged to conduct an official Quick count of show Estrada with More than million More than twice the total of his nearest with the Quick count now accounting for More than half the estimated 27 million votes most observers have accepted that barring some unforeseen scandal or disruption in the canvassing of Estrada will indeed be the next a former actor and three term mayor of this upscale suburb of metropolitan Estrada yesterday stopped answering questions about electoral fraud and turned his attention toward the issues of a successful he spoke about some of his choices for Cabinet and senior diplomatic and if there was tension surrounding the ultimate Estrada was not showing Dis playing his now trademark grimacing smile and lacquered hair holding court under heavy Security at his spacious took Spe Cial pleasure in pointing out the foreign reporters attending his news you i have already been approved for International Era chuckled to the crush of reporters were particularly interested to know if Estrada would forgive the attacks of detractors such As Manuel a successful businessman by his own entered the presiden tial race primarily to bring about Estradas Morato conceded his own defeat on although Estrada promised that he would not be a vengeful he gave no indication he 1 was willing to forgive or he is not Worth even talking Estrada said of Estrada is still officially under investigation for trying to organize an assassination plot against outgoing president Fidel Ramos in his recently fled the country for Estrada is portrayed by opponents As a scan Amiga free press reporter Dan Lett is in the Philippines covering the after math of the controversial May 11 he writes about what filipinos can expect from the apparent Joseph Dalous heavy Drinker and Friend to gamblers and drug Estrada has done Little to combat these images and at even added to the legend with his of the cuff when asked if he had any advice for president Bill who is being dogged by sex scandals of his Estrada commented that the trick was to have More less opponents have tried to evoke concern among the electorate that rumoured to have sclerosis of the will not last the full six years of his although clearly not a Well Estrada has downplayed these first they say i am a they claim i have bad which is it How can i be a Womanizer if in in such bad health As for the millions have embraced him As their ant elite a character not unlike the characters he played in the filipino Cinema during the 1950s and his often coarse unpolished behaviour and the rumours of his indiscretions Only seem to add to his it 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