Moderators Moderator_02 Posted April 27, 2019 Author Moderators Share Posted April 27, 2019 Quote Humbled ex-president vows return to office "We'll be back says Martinelli from jail Posted 26/04/2019 Former President Ricardo Martinelli, facing trial for allegedly spying on 150 opponents, with up to to a dozen corruption investigations waiting in the wings said on Friday, April 26, that he will continue to be a force in local politics and will be president in 2024. Through a video posted on social networks by his attorney and spin doctor Luis Eduardo Camacho Jr., Martinelli who was declared unable to run for the mayor said he will seek the presidential candidacy for the 2024 elections. "This makes me stronger, and makes me more humble, and we're going to be president again in 2024. We'll be back!" He said in the brief message. Martinelli was transferred on Friday the morning of this Friday to the accusatory criminal system (SPA), in Plaza Ágora, when the decision of the magistrates of the Electoral Court that he could not run for mayor was released, He arrived at the SPA shouting "electoral fraud". https://www.newsroompanama.com/news/humbled-ex-president-vows-return-to-office Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Moderator_02 Posted April 27, 2019 Author Moderators Share Posted April 27, 2019 Quote Candidate accused of “black man ****” racial slur Mayin Correa Posted 26/04/2019 The journalist and former Panama Governor and longtime CD cheerleader Mayín Correa refused Friday. April 26 to grant an interview to the radio station Radio Panama, after knowing that the judges of the Electoral Tribunal (TE) accepted the challenges to the candidacies for deputy in the 8-8 circuit and mayor of former president Ricardo Martinelli. Instead, reports La Prensa Correa insulted Edwin Cabrera .the director of news services of the radio station When a communicator from that radio station contacted her on Friday to find out her opinion on the Tribunal’s decision TE’s subject, Correa indicated that she hated the radio station because it was directed by "a black man ****.” Cabrera posted the slur on his Twitter account. With Martinelli barred l from running, Correa would be the CD candidate in the 8-8 circuit. https://www.newsroompanama.com/news/candidate-accused-of-black-man-****-racial-slur-1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keith Woolford Posted April 27, 2019 Share Posted April 27, 2019 (edited) On 4/26/2019 at 7:28 AM, Moderator_02 said: https://www.newsroompanama.com/news/public-can-access-reports-of-miss-spending-deputies These reports verify why Panama's elected representatives are so mistrusted. Good on Controller General Federico Humbert for calling them out publicly. http://www.contraloria.gob.pa/CGR.CONSULTAPAGOS/index.aspx Edited April 27, 2019 by Keith Woolford Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Moderator_02 Posted April 28, 2019 Author Moderators Share Posted April 28, 2019 Quote OPINION: Electoral proceaa abused Posted 27/04/2019 The decision of the Electoral Tribunal (TE) not to recognize the two candidacies of former President Ricardo Martinelli should serve to make a profound reflection on our electoral regime. Only eight days before the elections, the composition of the electoral offer for the second position of importance in the country, that of the mayor of the district of Panama, was defined. However, the proximity of the decision to the elections left a high level of uncertainty. In a divided decision, the magistrates had to discuss in detail the concept of electoral residence and determine that Martinelli had not been in Panama for the time necessary to be a candidate. With this decision, the Electoral Tribunal closes some gaps in the existing legislation. But it worries that this organism had to wait for a denunciation of impugnation to avoid this nonsense. Similarly, it seems that the TE is unarmed in the face of abuses in the electoral process, depending on a prosecutor who is complicit in many mockeries of democracy. Perhaps we are in time to prevent the great institutional crisis that exists in other parts of the world. It is not fair to expect other controversies to clean up the system, nor to allow the electoral process to be abused in order to seek impunity before the courts -LAPRENSA, Apl. 27 https://www.newsroompanama.com/news/opinion-electoral-proceaa-abused Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Moderator_02 Posted April 28, 2019 Author Moderators Share Posted April 28, 2019 23 hours ago, Moderator_02 said: https://www.newsroompanama.com/news/candidate-accused-of-black-man-****-racial-slur-1 Quote Journalists demand apology for racist remarks Posted 27/04/2019 The National Association of Journalists (CONAPE) hs called on a CD candidate to issue a public apology for what they label “racist” comments. Mayin Correa a former mayor of Panama City and one- time Governor of the province is running for election as a deputy in place of Ricardo Martinelli. She is a broadcast journalist who, according to an audio circulating on social networks, responded to a request for an interview from Radio Panama with an outburst “I hate that station run by that **** black man.” “We consider inadmissible the racist and derogatory attacks of the journalist Omaira Correa against @radiopanama and the sr@EdwinECabreraU . by the journalist Mayín Correa@Correa Mayin we exhort her to express her public apologies, …and show tolerance. "said CONAPE. https://www.newsroompanama.com/news/journalists-demand-apology-for-racist-remarks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keith Woolford Posted April 29, 2019 Share Posted April 29, 2019 In case anyone is wondering there will be no liquor sales next weekend for 48 hours from Saturday May 4th at noon until Monday May 6th at noon. Stock up on tequila early if you're planning on a 5 de Mayo fiesta. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Moderator_02 Posted April 30, 2019 Author Moderators Share Posted April 30, 2019 Quote Business group Chamber highlights institutional crisis Posted 28/04/2019 Panama’s Chamber of Commerce, Industries and Agriculture (Cciap) has once again weighed in on the urgent need for the next government to address the current institutional crisis. In its Sunday, April 28 newsletter, the chamber said that the damage to state institutions is evident in the persistent confrontation between the powers of the State for political reasons, But also when there is a harmonization between them, it occurs to serve purposes other than those promulgated by the Constitution " This situation becomes an uncertainty with a direct impact on the productivity of the different economic sectors of the country," the statement said. It adds that the state entities must work oriented to the public good, governed by transparency when rendering accounts for their actions and insist on the need for the incoming administration to give continuity to those plans that have given positive results, and thus achieve its sustainability beyond 2019. On the administration of justice, the Chamber calls for a commitment to modify the Political Constitution of the Republic through two Assemblies. For the agricultural sector, they recommend, in the short term, a single laboratory for quality control and compliance with standards to support export efforts; strengthen the Department of Commercial Defense of the Ministry of Commerce and Industries (MICI), so that it works efficiently and interposes defense mechanisms if required. In the medium term, a national strategy that includes the commitment of the producer to adopt appropriate technologies and achieve efficiency in a sustained manner. Tourism Tourism is another factor to be highlighted considering the urgency of giving support to the publicity of Panama at an international level, and ensuring the resources for the Mixed Fund for Tourism Promotion. On the other hand, taking advantage of the millions of passengers that the Tocumen International Airport receives every year, this air terminal must be used to the maximum to promote the country as a destination. https://www.newsroompanama.com/business/business-group-chamber-highlights-institutional-crisis Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Moderator_02 Posted April 30, 2019 Author Moderators Share Posted April 30, 2019 Quote OFF THE CUFF: Scoundrels and tunnel vision Galvez cheered by ham recipients Posted 28/04/2019 Cambio Democrático (CD) deputy Sergio Chello Gálvez, a self-anointed “sexual buffalo” returned to his old stomping ground in El Chorillo on Saturday, April, 27, where he is renowned for his annual distribution of tax-payer funded Christmas hams to constituents He was making the rounds in his campaign to become mayor of the capital city a slot that became available after the Electoral Tribunal ruled that ex-president Ricardo Martinelli was not eligible to run because he was not resident in Panama in the year prior to his nomination by the party he founded, funded, and ruled. Martinelli was self-exiled in Miami, warming a cell in a US Federal jail. Chello who also wants to be re-elected as deputy of circuit 8-7. walked the main streets of the corregimiento accompanied by former first lady Marta Linares de Martinelli who appeared to be suffering from tunnel vision. Gálvez asked that in the next elections there be a "punishment vote for the government of Juan Carlos Varela." Martinelli Linares seconded this request and added that we must vote for all CD candidates "to get the scoundrels out of the government." She and her two sons and some dozens of “scoundrel’s” from her husband’s administration are facing corruption investigations. She also called for the votes for Gálvez as mayor of the capital and for Mayín Correa (recently accused of racism) as deputy of the circuit 8-8. https://www.newsroompanama.com/opinion/off-the-cuff-scoundrels-and-tunnel-vision Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Moderator_02 Posted April 30, 2019 Author Moderators Share Posted April 30, 2019 Quote Panama bars “dry” for election Posted 29/04/2019 The May 5 election will render Panama “dry” starting at noon on May 4. Bars, canteens, wineries, barbecues, nightclubs, dance halls and liquor stores will be closed. Thursday, May 2, is the last day for candidates to make electoral propaganda. In addition, companies that provide fixed advertising services (billboards, posters, and signs) must withdraw them. https://www.newsroompanama.com/news/panama-bars-dry-for-election-1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Moderator_02 Posted May 2, 2019 Author Moderators Share Posted May 2, 2019 Quote Another candidate koses inmunity Lourdes Cortes Posted 01/05/2019 The sister of a prominent CD leader facing trial for embezzlement is the latest person to lose immunity granted by the Electoral Tribunal. magistrates of the Electoral Tribunal (TE) decided to lift the imnuity of to the deputy of the Central American Parliament (Parlacen) deputy Lourdes Cortés , at the request of the Supreme Court. The General Secretariat of the Supreme Court sent the request for the lifting of jurisdiction, since Cortés - Cambio Democrático- is investigated "for the alleged crime against public administration in the form of embezzlement, or the crime resulting from the investigation." Cortés, sister of former Labor Minister Alma Cortés, filed a motion for reconsideration before the TE. In April 2015, the Court admitted a complaint filed on July 28, 2014 by the then Minister of Work and Labor Development (Mitradel), Luis Ernesto Carles. She e is accused of an alleged damage of $7,200 for not having returned the payment of a per diem for an official trip she made to Switzerland in 2011. Cortés enjoys electoral privilege because she is a candidate for Parlacen's principal deputy. https://www.newsroompanama.com/news/another-candidate-koses-inmunity Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Moderator_02 Posted May 2, 2019 Author Moderators Share Posted May 2, 2019 Quote PRD Supporters Promised Victory Feast GUESS who's coming to dinner Posted 02/05/2019 Thousands of supporters of the presidential candidate of the Democratic Revolutionary Party (PRD), Laurentino Cortizo packed Via Espana on Wednesday Apl 30 in an orchestrated final rally billed as the Uniting Forces Festival. It kicked off with with zumba classes, and developed into a family fair with the participation of national artists, like Osvaldo Ayala, Samy and Sandra Sandoval, Los Gaitanes, Margarita Henríquez, Japanese, Principal, Mr. Salt and Pepper before the final flavoring of speeches laden with political promises and the final soupcon of predictions of the presentation of a glorious victory on May 5. At 6:10 p.m. Cortizo, went on stage, to remind his followers that they are only a few hours away from the victory feast and to be sure to turn out early to frustrate other wannabee diners at the ruler’s table. "Uniting strength is to avoid more deaths due to medications that are not available," Cortizo said and added a few more flavorings already espoused by previous head chefs, and current wannabees like generating employment, while ending a decade of corruption, incapacity and lies. The menu. has been set and the invitations sent out, but who will show for dinner remains to be seen. Last time there was a surprise host to decide who would be sitting where at the head table. https://www.newsroompanama.com/news/prd-supporters-promised-victory-feast Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Doug Posted May 3, 2019 Share Posted May 3, 2019 I spent some time with the mayoral candidate for Boquete this afternoon, Joswar Alvarado. Of course, I'm not allowed to vote, but he has a vision for Boquete including an office for foreign residents and fixing all the dang sidewalks in town and beyond. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Moderator_02 Posted May 6, 2019 Author Moderators Share Posted May 6, 2019 Quote Nito Cortizo Panama’s next president Posted 06/05/2019 The Electoral Tribunal (TE) declared Laurentino "Nito" Cortizo 66, of the PRD winner of the presidential campaign and president-elect of Panama with a narrow victory over Rómulo Roux, of Democratic Change (CD). Cortizo received the call soon after 11.30 pm with 95 percent of the votes counted. Later, he addressed his followers, at the Vasco Núñez de Balboa convention center, of the Panama hotel. "I owe it to you and to all the Panamanians, I'm not going to disappoint you, Nito Cortizo will be the first worker in the country," he told his followers. He promised to fight corruption, respect the independence of the judiciary and warned that there will be no "untouchable deputies, businessmen or ministers". With his victory, Cortizo - businessman and rancher - breaks a streak of two consecutive defeats in the PRD, which last won a presidential election in 2004, with Martin Torrijos. He, was part of the Torrijos Cabinet, holding the post of Minister of Agricultural Development from 2004 to 2005, which he resigned due to differences in the negotiation of the Free Trade Agreement with the United States. Cortizo arrives at the presidential palace with José Gabriel Carrizo, 35 vice president. In his campaign, Cortizo has said that there will be no untouchables in his government and he has tried to distance himself from the leadership of his party, which has deputies Pedro Miguel González and Benicio Robinson as secretary-general and president of the National Executive Committee (CEN),. He liked to refer to himself as the first presidential candidate of the PRD that is not part of the "dome", reports La Prensa He also promised to attend to the National Commitment to Education; convene a parallel Constituent; reform the public procurement law -to "eliminate discretion and combat corruption" - and revise the Central American trade treaties. Likewise, create the Ministry of Culture and reduce "fat" in the state apparatus, especially in trips abroad and travel expenses., on April 23, it announced that it will promote an "initiative" so that companies accused of corruption cannot tender in the country Cortizo referred to Odebrecht as "a company that has polluted the region with machinery to corrupt officials and private companies." The Electoral Tribunal (TE) declared Laurentino "Nito" Cortizo 66, of the PRD winner of the presidential campaign and president elect of Panama with a narrow victory over Rómulo Roux , of Democratic Change (CD). Cortizo received the call aoon after 11.30 pm with 95 percent og the votes counted. Later, he addressed his followers, at the Vasco Núñez de Balboa convention center, of the Panama hotel. "I owe it to you and to all the Panamanians, I'm not going to disappoint you, Nito Cortizo will be the first worker in the country," he told his followers. He promised to fight corruption, respect the independence of the judiciary and warned that there will be no "untouchable deputies, businessmen or ministers". With his victory, Cortizo - businessman and rancher - breaks a streak of two consecutive defeats in the PRD, which last won a presidential election ib 2004, with Martin Torrijos . He, was part of the Torrijos Cabinet, holding the post of Minister of Agricultural Development from 2004 to 2005, which he resigned due to differences in the negotiation of the Free Trade Agreement with the United States. Cortizo arrives at the presidential palace with José Gabriel Carrizo , 35 as vice president. In his campaign, Cortizo has said that there will be no untouchables in his government and he has tried ried to distance himself from the leadership of his party, which has deputies Pedro Miguel González and Benicio Robinson as secretary general and president of the National Executive Committee (CEN) ,. He liked to refer to himself as the first presidential candidate of the PRD that is not part of the "dome", reports La Prensa He also promised to attend to the National Commitment to Education ; convene a parallel Constituent; reform the public procurement law -to "eliminate discretion and combat corruption" - and revise the Central American trade treaties. Likewise, create the Ministry of Culture and reduce "fat" in the state apparatus, especially in trips abroad and travel expenses., on April 23, it announced that it will promote an "initiative" so that companies accused of corruption cannot tender in the country Cortizo referred to Odebrecht as "a company that has polluted the region with machinery to corrupt officials and private companies." https://www.newsroompanama.com/news/nito-cortizo-panamas-next-president Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Moderator_02 Posted May 6, 2019 Author Moderators Share Posted May 6, 2019 Quote Deputy campaign hands out $100 vouchers Constituents exchange bonus vouchers Posted 05/05/2019 Controversial Cambio Democrático (CD), deputy Sergio Chello Gálvez, renowned for distribution of taxpayer-funded Christmas hams to voters in El Chorrillo has denied handing out bonus vouchers as he bids to be re-elected and to become mayor of Panama. La Prensa reported that hours before the elections on Sunday, May 5, residents of El Chorrillo, at the circuit 8-7, lined up at the Xtra supermarket in the area to exchange $100 bonus cards for different items. According to the testimony of some of those in the line the bond was given to them by Gálvez, who is seeking re-election in the National Assembly; He also wants to be mayor of Panama and representative of El Chorrillo and has promised that if he becomes mayor he will rule with the hand of Ricardo Martinelli on his shoulder. Some of the beneficiaries of the bonus, who asked for anonymity, said that everything came up in one of the walks organized by Gálvez reports La Prensa. During the activity, Galvez activists collected names and numbers of the participants' cards and later went house-to-house and handed out the bonds. Others said that "Chello" gave them out for the anniversary of El Chorrillo, on April 29. On Sunday Galvez denied the report saying that after 30 years in politics “I wouldn’t be so stupid” https://www.newsroompanama.com/news/deputy-campaign-hands-out-100-vouchers-1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Moderator_02 Posted May 6, 2019 Author Moderators Share Posted May 6, 2019 Quote Suspended priest resurfaces to vote David Cosca Posted 05/05/2019 The Catholic priest David Cosca who has not been seen in public since he was separated from his duties when his name cropped up in the investigation of the murder of Eduardo Calderón, in a room at the Hotel El Panama, resurfaced on Sunday, May 5 when he turned up to cast his vote. TVN reports that he said that "the trial" in which he was mentioned has "ended". https://www.newsroompanama.com/news/suspended-priest-resurfaces-to-vote Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Moderator_02 Posted May 6, 2019 Author Moderators Share Posted May 6, 2019 Quote 5-time world champion’s vote delayed over missing ID Posted 05/05/2019 Panama’s most famed boxing hero, Roberto “hands of stone” Duran flew back from viewing a fight in Las Vegas to vote at the La Salle School., He turned up wearing a cap of the presidential candidate of the Revolutionary Party Democratic Party (PRD), Laurentino Cortizo but did not have his personal ID card allowing him to vote. He had to wait for the presence of an electoral delegate with authorization from the Electoral Tribunal (TE) because he had lost his cedulla. His son was present to confirm the identity.of the five-time world champion. Durán also had not brought his glasses and had to kneel in order to vote. https://www.newsroompanama.com/news/5-time-world-champions-vote-delayed-over-missing-id Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keith Woolford Posted May 6, 2019 Share Posted May 6, 2019 (edited) Local results: Mayor of Boquete - JOSWAR ALVARADO, formerly representante from Alto Boquete - defeated incumbent Millo Vasquez Deputy to the National Assembly - MANOLO RUIZ, formerly Mayor of Boquete - defeated incumbent Athenas Athanadasias Edited May 6, 2019 by Keith Woolford Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Keith Woolford Posted May 7, 2019 Share Posted May 7, 2019 These are the new Representantes, or Council Representatives, for each area of the Boquete District. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keith Woolford Posted May 7, 2019 Share Posted May 7, 2019 Throw the Bums out. The unofficial campaign 'No Re-Election of Anyone" was very successful in Chiriqui. Seven Mayors are among the incumbents who failed to hold their seat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Moderator_02 Posted May 7, 2019 Author Moderators Share Posted May 7, 2019 Quote Gas Tank keeps Sexual Buffalo at bay Posted 06/05/2019 José Luis Fábrega (PRD), nicknamed “Gas Tank”, is the new mayor of Panama He was elected with a total of 171,400 votes (42.55%) locking out the self-named “sexual buffalo” Sergio Chello Gálvez from CD who obtained 124,902 votes (31.01%). Galvez had promised to rule hand in hand with Ricardo Martinelli. Independent Raúl Rodríguez, got 56,166 votes (13.94%) and Adolfo 'Beby' Valderrama, of the ruling Panamenista party with 42,282 votes (10.50%) No blood letting Fábrega and his running Judy Meana, have been very clear in pointing out that they want to work with the honest officials of the capital city. "All the staff that works in the Mayor's Office, stays in the Mayor's Office," said the new mayor, noting that there will be no outflow of officials, as often happens when there is a change in management after the elections reports La Estrella https://www.newsroompanama.com/news/gas-tank-keeps-sexual-buffalo-at-bay Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Moderator_02 Posted May 7, 2019 Author Moderators Share Posted May 7, 2019 Quote Winners, Losers and disappeared Posted 06/05/2019 All elections produce winners and losers, but sometimes those on the flip side of the coin gain a hidden prize. In Panama’s election, the electorate became big winners with the success of the no to reelection campaigners and the ousting of many lawmakers who spent decades feeding at the public trough. La Prensa lists Nito Cortizo and the PRD as winners because, although e victory was by a narrow margin, the party won the Presidency, City Hall and a majority in the National Assembly. The PRD learned from the lessons of the past and "joined forces" around a conciliatory-looking candidate with a history without peaks, but no blemishes either. Cortizo won with 33.11% of the votes cast, that is, 624,316, which represents 60 .316 over the total of adherents (564,000) of his party. The other winner, says La Prensa was Rómulo Roux . After winning the primaries, he took the reins of the CD and, already in campaign, managed the political patrimony of the Madman,(El Loco) Ricardo Martinelli in a masterful way: he got his voters to associate him with "the good" that the Martinelli administration was supposed to have, while distanced from the negative. He led an agile campaign that, despite dragging so many skeletons, attracted a part of the young vote. With 585,462 votes, Roux exceeded by 234, 462 the number of adherents of his party (351,000). Ricardo Lombana is, possibly, the great winner of the day. With a discourse on democratic values, a campaign devoid of client promises and a budget of public money that did not reach $200 ,000(compared to $12.38 million and $11.41 million dollars granted to the PRD and the CD, respectively) the independent candidate captured the 19.27% of the votes, The biggest loser says La Prensa was José Isabel Blandón. The Panamanian candidate obtained 10.49% of the votes, that is, 197, 910. The figure is low if one takes into account that in 2014 Varela won with 724,000 thousand votes, that the party had $9 million in public financing and that the party's membership exceeds 350,000. The electorate punished the governing party with force, evident in the fact that José Luis Varela, brother of the president and veteran deputy of Pesé, lost the seat he had for decades. The other big loser is Saúl Méndez, from FAD. This party managed one and a half million dollars of public financing, an amount 10 times higher than that managed by Lombana, and obtained 0.67% of the total votes, equivalent to 12,587. This represents one-third of the party's membership and less of 1% of the total number of members of the Single Union of Construction Workers (Suntracs), of which he is general secretary. Its failure is so spectacular that it is very likely that the party will disappear. https://www.newsroompanama.com/news/winners-losers-and-disappeared Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Moderator_02 Posted May 7, 2019 Author Moderators Share Posted May 7, 2019 Quote Varela rebel son happy to lose title Gian Varela Posted 06/05/2019 A few hours after having passed the elections and a few days before the end of his father's government, DJ Gian Varela expressed his joy that in a few days he will lose the title "son of the president". He also Tweeted that he went to vote without security and did not follow the family line. He offered to provide recommendations to the children of newly elected politicians. He signed the message “Forever Tortoise" (the name given to President Varela by political opponents https://www.newsroompanama.com/news/varela-rebel-son-happy-to-lose-title-1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Moderator_02 Posted May 8, 2019 Author Moderators Share Posted May 8, 2019 Quote 22-year-old political giant killer creates history Posted 07/05/2019 Juan Diego Vásquez a 22-year-old political neophyte running as an independent has become the most voted candidate in Panama. The young criminal law student ran for office in San Miguelito and with 33, 693 votes crushed old guard politicians including Zulay Rodríguez, Raúl Pineda and Leandro Ávila, from the Partido Revolucionario Democrático (PRD). Who between them mustered 44,867 Circuit 8-6 is multi-nominal where seven candidates are chosen. Young and without party allegiance he ran on a platform with a proposal that includes reforms to the regulations of the National Assembly, a fight against corruption and changes in public contracts. "People knew they had a choice," he said on TVN Noticias As a member of the National Youth Network for Transparency, he had previously presented to the Assembly a bill to prevent corruption offenses. Now, he promises a proposal that includes in the law of public contracting norms that oblige the contractor companies to link the communities and their residents in the work they do. He hopes to promote reforms to establish a transparent and public vote in the plenary sessions and in the permanent committees of the National Assembly. He also wants lawmakers to be paid for work performed and to establish that the salary of a deputy is relative to the number of votes in which he has participated as a member of permanent commissions and of the plenary itself so that for https://www.newsroompanama.com/news/22-year-old-political-giant-killer-creates-history Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Moderator_02 Posted May 8, 2019 Author Moderators Share Posted May 8, 2019 Quote Constitutional reform in first 100 days says Cortizo Posted 07/05/2019 Constitutional reform, in the first 100 days of his presidency is a priority of president-elect, Laurentino 'Nito' Cortizo, h said on Monday May 6. He said it could be achieved through two legislative periods and be a reality this year. The reform package analyzed by the Council for the National Coalition would be the document that would be sent to the National Assembly. "The reforms to the Constitution are important and we have to act quickly, and for that, we will use the document that was prepared. He added, that the Chamber of Commerce, Industries and Agriculture of Panama and the National Council for Private Enterprise (Conep) support that document. "The idea is that in these months we have the document to present to the Assembly and be approved without modifications, as established in article 313 numeral 2 of the Constitution, in two legislatures and then submit it to a referendum," he said. To achieve the constitutional reforms, he would have to negotiate with President, Juan Carlos Varela, in the event that he intends to discuss the proposal in the coming days to be debated by the current deputies that end on June 30. The document would be presented in the next legislature that begins on July 1. After its approval, the Executive must call a referendum for final approval. Although the ordinary sessions of the National Assembly ended on April 30, President Varela has said that he will convene extraordinary sessions to reform the Negotiable Payment Certificates Law of the Second Part of the Thirteenth Month (Cepadem) to pay the $100 of bonds. to retirees and pending ratifications of the magistrate of the Supreme Court of Justice and directors of the Canal. Cortizo also indicated that during its first 100 days it will concentrate on reactivating the economy, through the payment of debts to government contractors, and initiating the 'Manos a la Obra' program, which is identified by provinces and counties to maintain and rehabilitate highways. Another important issue is the reform of the Public Procurement Law. In the first months of management, water will be a priority. "For human consumption, production of food and water for the Canal," he said. Cortizo said the issue of education is the 'star' theme of his government’s plan. Accompanied by his elected vice president, José Gabriel Carrizo, and part of his campaign team, Cortizo held a meeting with the magistrates of the Electoral Tribunal on Monday May 6. It was his first public appearance on the first day after he was informed of his victory on on Sunday, May 5. Cortizo won with the narrow margin of 2% of the votes cast, and his proclamation will be on Wednesday. https://www.newsroompanama.com/news/constitutional-reform-in-first-100-days-says-cortizo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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