Triumph for Aquino in the Philippines
The voters Monday delivered Philippine President Benigno S. Aquino III a resounding mandate along with nine of the 12 Senate seats his slate of candidates were contesting. In the process, voters ignored a last-ditch campaign by the Catholic Church to defeat candidates who had voted for the Reproductive Health Act passed last December.
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