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by the Philippine Daily Inquirer

Sen. Manuel Villar has pulled away from a field of more than a dozen presidential aspirants, gaining an additional 11 percentage points in voter preference from the 14 percent he got in May, results of the latest nationwide survey conducted by Pulse Asia show.

One in every four, or 25 percent of voters, would have Villar elected the country’s next president if the May 2010 elections were held early this month, Pulse Asia said Tuesday.

Trailing Villar, a former Senate president who made his billions in property development, are former President Joseph Estrada (19 percent), Vice President Noli de Castro (16 percent), Sen. Francis Escudero (12 percent) and Sen. Mar Roxas (11 percent).