Opposition candidate Roux calls for an end to “corrupt politics” in Panama

Opposition presidential candidate Romulo Roux This Wednesday, at a campaign closing event, he asked Panamanians to vote in the May 5 elections to change the Constitution and dismantle the political system “that protects corruption”.

The Sunday “let’s go for vote for a change for O Constitution to dismantle the political system that protects corruption and impunity”said the center right Roux in front of hundreds of followers at a rally held in Santiago de Veráguasabout 250 kilometers southwest of Panama City.

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“Let’s go for finish forever with policy corrupt”, he added.

Roux59 years old, is one of eight presidential candidates in these elections, which are decided in a single round and by a simple majority.

The right-wing José Raúl Mulino He leads the polls with between 25% and 30% voting intentions, double that of his immediate followers: the former social-democratic president. Martin Torrijos (2004-2009) and center-right lawyers Ricardo Lombana and Roux.

Roux He was chancellor and minister of Panama Canal of the president Ricardo Martinelli (2009-2014), who was disqualified from attending for these elections after being sentenced to almost eleven years in prison for money laundering.

However, after the scandals, Roux He put things in the middle with his ex-boss, currently asylum at the embassy of Nicaragua not to go for prison.

“This is a crucial election and we will for choose between two options: either we continue as we are with the same corrupt group that steals money (…) and lives off political system or we vote for real change” he pointed Roux.

“In just four days this will be over government’s nightmare” he added.

Rouxwho competes as candidate from his party Democratic Changein coalition with the traditional Panamanian Partypromised to change Constitution to reform the state.

He also proposed the creation of half a million jobs, an increase in the minimum pension for 350 dollars a month, reactivate the economy, an austerity plan and build a railway from the capital for the western province of Chiriquíin the border Costa Rica.

Roux came second in the 2019 elections, after losing by a small margin to the current president, the Social Democrat Laurentino Cortizo.

Source: Elcomercio

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