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This verdict comes six years after Estrada was ousted from power by his political rivals with the backing of the army and the powerful Church; and, the last word is yet to be heard. The matter is bound to reach up to the apex court in appeal; and, for now, Estrada can buy time. Neither has he accepted the judgment, terming it a “political decision” taken at the behest of President Gloria Arroyo by a “kangaroo court”, nor has he given in to pleas to seek presidential pardon. Seeking pardon would mean admission of guilt, which he insists he doesn’t have any sense of. Politicians, by their very nature, do not make a clean breast of their past deeds, and would try best to stand their ground.
The two years that saw Estrada at the helm of affairs in the Philippines hadn’t been years of forward march, by any reckoning. He was first and last a leader of the common masses, and displayed little of administrative acumen. His days in the presidential palace are remembered more for the drunken dramas that took place there, if not for allegations of shady deals; something that proved to be his undoing. At the same time, feelings are also that the Church had conspired with the rich and the powerful to oust a popularly elected leader and frame him up in corruption cases. Without doubt, the poor in the Philippines had stood by him in those days. Under the circumstances, the real truth behind the allegations might never come out.
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