With Palace efforts to get testimony on alleged election fraud from accused Maguindanao massacre conspirator Zaldy Ampatuan and former Commission on Elections officials Virgilio Garcillano and Lintang Bedol, people are again debating who won the 2004 presidential elections. This despite fraud allegations being unproven and perhaps involving too few votes to change the outcome. Thus, Filipinos again demonstrate the adage that in this country, no candidate loses elections, but rather every loser is cheated.

Predictably, Comelec Chairman Sixto Brillantes, election lawyer of defeated candidate Fernando Poe Jr., has asserted that FPJ won. So has a new video presentation unveiled by Senator Chiz Escudero and uploaded on the YouTube website. Atty. Raul Lambino, legal spokesperson of former president and incumbent Congresswoman Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, maintains that GMA won the presidency fair and square in 2004.