This was published to the Letters to the Editor of Arab news on 27 June 2004.
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The analysis “Doubts Linger over Philippines’ Future, Despite Arroyo’s Victory” (June 22) asks if President Arroyo can unite her people, fight poverty, defeat coup plotters and handle the questions raised by the opposition with regard to the legality of her fresh mandate. What is ignored here is the fact that, in the Philippines, the received wisdom is that nobody really loses in any election: The winners win because they cheat and the losers lose because they are cheated. The losing camps will always complain of cheating no matter how honestly an election was conducted. They never show the maturity to concede defeat. This is what makes me admire the Indians. The BJP that lost the recent elections accepted defeat gracefully.
For Arroyo, this fresh mandate is a start, and I urge every Filipino, in the Philippines or outside, to support her presidency.
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