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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nIntroduction
Rodrigo Duterte\u2019s candidacy may have been officially announced in late
November 2015 but his rise in popularity, in the Visayas at least, was aided
by the dismal performance of then President Benigno Aquino\u2019s administration when super typhoon Haiyan (known locally as Yolanda) struck the Mindanao and Visayas regions on November 7, 2013. A few days after the typhoon, Duterte visited Tacloban and offered \u201cP8 million ($340,000) worth of relief goods and equipment\u201d (Lacorte 2013). He also criticized President Aquino for merely declaring a state of calamity instead of a state of emergency \u201cbecause there is no local government functioning anymore\u201d (Lacorte 2013). This visit would foreshadow Duterte\u2019s political narrative, in his eventual rise to the Philippine presidency: firstly, his assertion for a state of emergency declaration would signal his autocratic leadership style and secondly, the image of Duterte visiting the city of Tacloban would engrain itself in the psyche of the voters in the Visayan speaking regions when they cast their votes during the 2016 presidential election. Arguably, the Yolanda disaster that clung so strongly to the Aquino administration\u2019s political party and its erstwhile presidential candidate, Manuel \u201cMar\u201d Araneta Roxas II, more than Duterte\u2019s strong stance against the illegal drug problem, is the turning point in Duterte\u2019s political narrative that delivered his victory in \u201cfive Visayan provinces \u2013 Cebu, Bohol, Southern Leyte, Leyte and Biliran\u201d (Tiongson-Mayrina and Barrientos-Vallarta 2016). In particular, the vote-rich Cebu province delivered more than a million votes for Duterte, almost double Roxas\u2019s vote count.
What made the 2013 disaster so devastating for the future of the Aquino
administration\u2019s political party was not only the \u201chigh toll of Yolanda super
typhoon casualties,\u201d rather it was also the \u201cslow relief operations and
rehabilitation\u201d (Villamejor-Mendoza et al. 2018, 203). Yolanda is now
synonymous with a perceived incompetence in governance. Despite being
merely a mayor of Davao City at that point, Duterte\u2019s decision not only to
offer financial aid and logistical assistance to Tacloban but also to personally visit the beleaguered city was a stark contrast to President Aquino\u2019s quick and terse visit the previous day. So, the Yolanda moment in Duterte\u2019s political narrative becomes more ironic, especially as his presidential term draws to a close in 2022. The very region that contributed to Duterte\u2019s victory would again experience a typhoon disaster in December 2021 due to a similar incompetence. In a way, Duterte\u2019s political narrative of change comes full circle: what began as a promise to do better ends in a similar manner as that of his predecessor, another failed attempted at \u201cchange.\u201d In this chapter, I examine how Duterte\u2019s autocratic leadership style engenders a Sisyphean cycle in his environmental management practices. In particular, I analyze Duterte\u2019s disaster management strategies deployed for the typhoons that occurred during the first two years of the pandemic (2020-2021).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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