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In the first week of July, Mayor Isko is all over the news.

He is all business during his


first State of the City address as he holds up a piece of paper with a huge zero,
representing the number of official documents the previous administration turned over to
his transition team.

The next day he presents a suspect arrested for allegedly extorting money from
sidewalk vendors in Blumentritt in the Sta. Cruz district. Photos begin circulating online
of a relatively clean Divisoria and Carriedo—once teeming with countless sidewalk
vendors and impenetrable to motor vehicles—now passable to vehicular and pedestrian
traffic and cleared of obstructions, human or otherwise. Clearing operations in the area
was one of the first official directives of the freshman Mayor.

At 44 years old, Francisco Moreno Domagoso, aka Isko Moreno, is the youngest
elected mayor of the city of Manila

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