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MANILA, Philippines (1st UPDATE) - Senator Manny Villar of the Nacionalista Party has further cut the lead of survey frontrunner Senator Benigno 'Noynoy' Aquino in a special survey of Social Weather Stations (SWS) commissioned by the Villar camp after Christmas.

Based on the December 27-28 SWS Special December Survey, Aquino's lead over Villar was down to 11% from 27% in November 4-8 (SWS national commissioned survey), and 22% in December 8-10 (Pulse Asia Pre-Election survey).

A total of 2,100 respondents were asked to choose from a list of presidential candidates who they were likely to vote for president if elections were held on the day the survey was conducted.

In the December 27-28 survey, 44% picked Aquino, while 33% chose Villar.

In the latest survey, Aquino was down 2% from the December 5-10 SWS survey (from 46% to 44%), while Villar was up 6% (from 27% to 33%).

Another significant change was the number of undecided: it fell from 4% in December 5-10 to only 1% in December 27-28.

Former President Joseph Estrada was chosen by 15%, statistically the same as the December 5-10 survey where he got 16%.

Administration candidate Gilbert Teodoro of the Lakas-Kampi got the same level of support as in the December 5-10 survey with 5%.

Brother Eddie Villanueva of Bangon Pilipinas also got the same support as the early December survey with 1%.