Isko Moreno’s inner circle paints picture of ‘obsessive’ leadership style

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The Manila mayor reads comments on his Facebook page, slept in his office for three months during the pandemic, and does inspections at any time of the day. PHVote WeDecide

MANILA, Philippines – Close to midnight on January 14, Isko Moreno goes live on his Facebook account. Visibly bleary-eyed and tired, he is sitting in a spot in Quirino Grandstand, showing viewers still awake at that time how his city’s drive-through vaccination was going.

PARTNERS. Mayor Isko Moreno shares a light moment with Vice Mayor Honey Lacuna during his State of the City Address at the Manila City Hall on Thursday, July 15, 2021. Rappler Honey, a doctor by training, suggested a tweak in Moreno’s initial idea: that the field hospital cater to mild patients instead of critical ones so it would be quicker to build.

Moreno’s tendency to immerse himself in work saw its full manifestation in the first months of the pandemic. Starting on March 15, 2020, first day of the Metro Manila lockdown, he slept in city hall for three months.NIGHT OWL. Isko Moreno, wearing cap and shorts, visits a Manila drive-thru vaccination site at midnight on January 23, 2022. Isko Moreno Domagoso Facebook screenshot

Unsurprisingly, Moreno thrives on coffee. The man drinks two to three large cups a day, according to Zarcal. You will rarely see Moreno without a Starbucks cup in his hand, whether he’s sitting down for a meeting with police or giving his regular “Capitol Report” in his office. When dealing with reporters covering his city, Moreno also tends to be hands-on, being part of the chat group himself and sometimes directly responding to a reporter’s query. Other officials would leave such a job to their public information officers. For instance, he disappointed a group of Manileños who his administration supposedly stonewalled about the development in Arroceros Park.

He was then schooled by a fellow councilor who said the provisions didn’t apply because Manila was a highly-urbanized city. Moreno took some by surprise during the Kapisanan ng mga Brodkaster ng Pilipinas presidential forum when he mentioned Bagatsing witnessed this first-hand as a local legislator in the council led by the vice mayor. Moreno served three terms as vice mayor.

That agility – others would say lack of backbone – is now manifested on the national stage by Moreno’s softening stance on President Duterte, who he had once been critical of. While disappointing to those who had initially seen in Moreno an alternative opposition candidate, it’s a valid strategy in an electoral landscape that already has an opposition figure but lacks a clear-cut pro-administration figure.

 

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