At Publius Pundit there is a nice roundup of commentary on the storm surrounding the Gloria Macapagal Arroyo Administration in the Philippines.:

Manila, Philippines, is seeing huge protests over the discovery of a tape which purport to show that that President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, the daughter of a founding president of the Philippines, rigged her last re-election a couple years ago, a contest she just barely won. She got her initial power in a People Power coup in 2001, an event I witnessed in Manila, and now apparently it’s her turn to exit the same way. Sad, because none of this is democratic. Initial news accounts are here, here, and here. Most of the blogging sentiment in Manila is that bad as she is, the threat to democracy is worse and it’s got to stop.