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MANILA Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, president of the Philippines, apologized to her countrymen on Monday, saying her telephone call to an election official, in which she allegedly discussed how to cheat in national elections last year, was "a lapse in judgment." 
On national television Monday evening, a somber-looking Arroyo said that her call to Virgilio Garcillano, a commissioner at the Commission on Elections, was not meant to influence the outcome of the election and that she was merely anxious to protect her votes. 
"I recognize that making any such call was a lapse in judgment," the president said. "I am sorry." She added that she took "full responsibility for my actions."

(IHT via Horse’s Mouth)