Panamanian opponent Lombana calls for vote to “put the corrupt in prison”

The lawyer Ricardo Lombanacenter-right opposition and candidate for Panama’s presidential elections on Sunday, ended his campaign on Tuesday in front of more than 1,000 supporters who asked for a vote to put the corrupt in prison.

“Panama is a looted country. Money is enough when it is not stolen. we will for put prisonerslet’s go for end your privileges and privileges, let’s for recover people’s money“, he said Lombana in the central Plaza 5 de Mayo, in Panama City.

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“We will be firm, yes, but with those who stole the country” he added.

Lombanaa 50-year-old former consul and lawyer, came third in the 2019 elections as an independent candidate.

In these elections it is presented by Another Way Movement (center-right), where he recruited former senior officials who were already independent, especially young people and opponents for mining.

Panama’s Supreme Court begins this Tuesday for analyze the legality of the presidential candidacy of the adversary right-wing José Raúl Mulinoreplacement for exiled former president Ricardo Martinelli and favorite for Win the election, José Raul Mulino.

Mulino leads the research with between 25% and 30% intention to votetwice as many as his immediate followers: former social-democratic president Martín Torrijos (2004-2009), Lombana and also the center-right lawyer Romulo Roux.

The situation with Mulino created in final stretch of the elections a strong uncertainty.

Of the eight candidates, Lombana is the one who has the most combat-focused speech corruption and clientelism, rooted in this Central American country.

During the campaign he even brandished an ax as a symbol of the promise to cut unnecessary public spending, in a possible reference to the chainsaw used by the Argentine president during the campaign. Javier Milei.

One of his proposals is to call a referendum for one new Constitution which reforms the powers of the state, limits the use of public funds, eliminates the privileges and privileges of senior officials, and transforms the justice system.

“Today is about how we go for rebuild the country and change the structures of impunity for give it back to the people (…) no more abuse against an entire nation” declared Lombana.

Source: Elcomercio

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