Tatler Philippines

A Day in the Life of a Mayor

It’s mid-morning on a Friday and Manila City Hall is abuzz with the excitement and eagerness to please of new hires on their first day of work. Everyone stands at attention: the Mayor is In. He has already started his day hours earlier, at half past eight in the morning, speaking before the graduating class of Adamson University at the Philippine International Convention Centre, and is about to continue his official schedule for the day. His mere presence is electrifying the place. Such is life around the country’s currently most popular mayor, Francisco Moreno Domagoso, familiarly Isko Moreno, or, more familiarly, Yorme.

Everyone seems more than happy to serve this chief executive of six months and 24 days (at the time of the pictorial/interview). For with a decisiveness shown early in his term, particularly in the way

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