MANILA (Reuters) - Philippine lawmakers agreed on Wednesday to investigate accusations that President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo tried to cheat in last year's elections, raising pressure on her to break her silence on the issue.
The government said earlier it had filed sedition charges against a former intelligence official who said he had tapes of a wiretapped conversation with an election official in which Arroyo appears to condone manipulating the results of the polls.
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