RP to announce Senate winners

RP to announce Senate winners

MANILA (Reuters): The Philippines' Commission on Elections (Comelec) said it would proclaim winners of the May 14 Senate polls on Tuesday with President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo's coalition likely to win eight of the 13 seats contested.

Arroyo, for whom the polls were a first electoral test since she took office in January, has said that eight seats will give her the majority she needs to push legislation through the 24- member Senate.

But it would fall short of the crushing victory that she had campaigned for against supporters of her ousted predecessor Joseph Estrada, who is in jail awaiting trial on corruption charges.