MANILA - As the flood waters recede and Filipinos count their extraordinary losses, analysts are weighing the political damage accrued to Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo's legacy and her anointed successor's electoral prospects at next year's polls.
Her government's response to tropical storm-induced flooding in Manila and nearby provinces has been widely criticized as inept and inadequate, drawing harsh parallels in the former American colony to past US president George W Bush's mismanagement of the Hurricane Katrina disaster that disproportionately affected poverty-stricken areas.
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