Manila: Actress Susan Roces said she would be a hypocrite not to desire a posthumous declaration of her husband, the late actor Fernando Poe Jr, as the winner of the 2004 presidential elections.
"I'm a hypocrite if I say I don't desire his proclamation. I wish it for those who supported him wholeheartedly," said Roces in a TV interview.
"History should be (made) right (with what realy happened) . That's what we want to happen, even if it means the one who cheated him will be known," said Roces.
Poe died of hypertension in 2005.
At the time, Poe's complaints of alleged electoral fraud in 2004, if filed, would be technically thrown out with the death of the former actor.
Poe's popularity rose prior to the 2004 elections, but his rising star dimmed when he refused to join debates with presidential contenders.
Poe's candidacy was supported by former president Joseph Estrada who was ousted after three years in office, in 2001, following military-backed street protests that were launched by those who were against the abrupt ending of his impeachment at the Senate in late 2000.
Campaign against Arroyo began in 2005 with the alleged backing of Estrada who was arrested in 2001 for $ 78 million plunder. He was convicted by the Sandiganbayan anti-graft court, of plunder in 2007, but Arroyo immediately granted him presidential clemency.
Campaign against Arroyo in that year was also backed by her ally, former president Corazon Aquino. At the time, Arroyo, head of the Presidential Agrarian Reform Court (PARC), ruled that the 4,000ha wide Hacienda Luisita (owned by Aquino's family) should be distributed to some 6,000 sugar farm workers.
It was in response to the complaints of the workers that they wanted to junk the stock dividends, in lieu of land, that they accepted from the management of the Hacienda Luisita in 1989.
Arroyo is now facing alleged electoral fraud in the 2007 congressional elections.
