Critics and members of the opposition have been pressing Arroyo to quit over allegations she stole the presidential election in May 2004.

On Saturday, opposition Senator Edgardo Angara said he would urge Congress to file a resolution for Arroyo to cut short her six-year term and call elections.

But her aides on Monday said Arroyo, who quashed an alleged coup attempt last month, would ride out the crisis until her term ends in 2010.

''The president has been elected for a six-year term. The mandate was won fair and square in the election in 2004 and the mandate stays until 2010,'' Arroyo's political adviser Gabriel Claudio said on local television.

He said the only way for snap elections to happen was if the constitution was amended and for a change in the system of government to take place.

But this should not be carried out ''for the purpose of cutting short anybody's term of office,'' Claudio said.

Presidential spokesman Ignacio Bunye said Angara's call ''has no legal basis'' and shrugged off surveys saying that Arroyo was losing popularity.