Further doubt about the legitimacy of Mrs Arroyo's rule was created by allegations that she wonthe presidential election three years later by cheating.
And Kirkuk, in northern Iraq, has something like 8 billion barrels remaining, but it was damaged by overproduction in the latter years of Saddam's rule and won't likely regain its peak of 700, 000 bpd.
Both the centre-left Labour party and the centre-right VVD party won a sufficient number of votes between themselves to rule with a majority in the lower houses of parliament.