Soon after the announcement, Cardinal Sin made a public statement asking the people to gather in the Ortigas Avenue and Epifanio de los Santos Advenue in Quezon City. All of the anti-Estrada spectators and prosecutors present left the courtroom when the decision was announced.
Despite the fact that this evidence could heavily influence the case, 11 out of the 21 senators voted not to open the envelope and use the evidence. During the trial, a bank provided evidence that, if opened and used in the case, was rumored to confirm that President Estrada had placed 500 million pesos in a bank account that was later used in gambling. The next day Manila Archbishop Jaime Cardinal Sin led a National Day of Protest which included a march in the city of Manila asking President Estrada to resign rather than force the country to endure a lengthy impeachment trial.Įstrada did not resign. One month later the House of Representatives called for the impeachment of the President, on charges of violating the Constitution through “bribery, graft and corruption, betrayal of public trust, and culpable violation of the Constitution.” On 4 October Governor Luis Chavit Singson, a well-known friend of Estrada, went public with accusations. In early October 2000, reports emerged that Estrada had been gambling and improperly using finances directly derived from taxpayers’ money. He then set about improving the country's tax collection system and worked towards demilitarizing the Philippine government.
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He won the election by the largest majority in the Philippines history of free elections.
In 1998 Estrada ran for President, running on the same platform of law and order. He served as Vice President for 6 years leading the Anti-Crime Commission and was also responsible for a number of high-profile crime arrests in the Philippines. Although the party’s presidential candidate, Eduardo Cojuangco, Jr., lost the election to Fidel Ramos, Estrada won the vice presidential contest. In 1992, Joseph E Estrada ran for Vice President on the National People’s Coalition ticket.
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