Panama Election Campaign
Gets Hot
As Panama Elections time
nears, speculation
begins getting hot,
tentatively scheduled
for May 2009, in the
middle of harsh attacks
among competing
candidates and lobbying
to obtain an alliance,
still in the phase of
intentions.
Aspirants to represent
governing party and
government rivals face
severe critics days ago
on their past and
current administrations,
even though they
maintain a polite way to
refer to this matter in
media.
Corruption, nepotism and
inefficiency are three
of the most common words
when each part talks
about the other,
according to public
statements.
The first personal page
addressed to promote the
mayor of the capital
Juan Carlos Navarro, who
holds an aggressive
campaign to obtain
postulation also appears
in the area of PRD
(governing Democratic
Revolutionary Party).
The content of the
articles of the
publication, denominated
El Aguijon, with
anonymous authors, are
destined to disqualify
main Navarro's rival
Housing Minister and PRD
President Balbina
Herrera.
Former President Ernesto
Perez Balladares
mentioned in an official
report the threats and
pressure against those
who voted in his favor
in national congress on
March 9 to lead PRD.
PRD will choose its
candidates in internal
elections, maybe on
October, and until now
only Herrera and Navarro
have confirmed their
aspirations.
Meantime, opposition
parties continue their
conversations to obtain
a coalition that allows
them to defeat PRD on
May 3, 2009. |
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