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- <text id=92TT1149>
- <title>
- May 25, 1992: To Two . . . and Counting
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
- May 25, 1992 Waiting For Perot
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 20
- WORLD
- To Two . . . and Counting
- </hdr><body>
- <p>So far we know who will not be the next President of the
- Philippines
- </p>
- <p> After five days of vote counting, all that was clear in last
- week's Philippine presidential election was which of the seven
- candidates had lost. They included House Speaker Ramon Mitra and
- Vice President Salvador Laurel, nominees of the country's two
- largest parties. Imelda Marcos, the former President's widow,
- was sixth, and Eduardo Cojuangco, a longtime Marcos colleague,
- was third.
- </p>
- <p> The front runners at week's end, with less than a quarter
- of the vote tabulated, were former Defense Minister Fidel Ramos
- and reform candidate Miriam Defensor Santiago. Ramos, who is
- President Corazon Aquino's choice to succeed her, had edged
- slightly ahead of Santiago, who promptly charged that
- "wholesale election fraud" was taking place.
- </p>
- <p> That seemed entirely possible. A group of international
- election observers reported that some poll officials were too
- drunk to keep track of voters, ballot boxes were being opened
- without authorization, and threats and bribery were widespread.
- The glacial vote count continues this week. The outgoing
- Congress, which is tabulating the votes for President and Vice
- President, will eventually announce the winners.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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