MANILA: Four days before the Philippine elections, President Gloria Arroyo appeared to be pulling away from her challengers after a bitter campaign which has revealed deep fault lines within the country.
Already buoyed by a small but improving lead in opinion polls over main rival, film star Fernando Poe, Arroyo late on Thursday received the backing of two influential Christian sects – the Iglesia ni Cristo and El-Shaddai.
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