A Philippine court has ordered former President Gloria Arroyo's arrest on plunder charges for allegedly misusing state lottery funds while in office.
Mrs Arroyo is accused of diverting $8.8m (£5.5m) from the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office for her personal gain.
She was detained earlier this year on a separate election fraud charge but released on bail in July.
The warrant came a day after she filed papers seeking re-election to congress.
Mrs Arroyo, 65, was president of the Philippines from 2001 until 2010. She is currently a lawmaker in the House of Representatives.
Aside from plunder, she also faces charges over electoral fraud in connection with polls in 2007, as well as corruption over an aborted broadband deal with a Chinese company.
She has denied all the charges and has accused President Benigno Aquino - who said that bringing her to justice is part of his anti-corruption campaign - of having a vendetta towards her, says the BBC's Kate McGeown in Manila.
Plunder is a non-bailable offence in the Philippines and carries a maximum penalty of life imprisonment.
Mrs Arroyo was first arrested in November 2011 after trying to leave the country to seek medical treatment for a spine-related ailment.
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