Other irritants in the Estrada-Ramos relationship abound - most of them having to do with the perception that Estrada is either undoing Ramos's legislative program or not taking his predecessor's initiatives to their logical conclusion.

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His opponents are not swallowing Estrada's arguments because they do not believe that economic reform is the only thing on the new cha-cha agenda, not even when he insists he does not want a second term.

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Estrada furiously denies the allegations that family and friends had anything to do with the scandal.

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