As well as being a leading figure in Lakas, Mrs Arroyo is vice-president of the Philippines.

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Ramos's Lakas-NUCD party has more cabinet posts (five) than Estrada's own LaMMP coalition with his defeated running-mate Senator Edgardo Angara (four).

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He said spin doctors once employed by Ramos's Lakas-NUCD party have been leaking allegations of various scams and other anomalies to the newspapers.

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