In conversation with Prensa Latina at the Atlapa Convention Center, in this capital, the experienced expert in these consultations stated that he predicts a participation above 80 percent, especially among youth (48 percent of the electorate is less than 40 years).
Since early hours, he said, unlike other consultations, I have seen many young people in the lines and that speaks well of the massiveness and success of this electoral tournament.
At the Bolívar Institute, where former President Martin Torrijos (2004-209), now standard bearer of the Popular Party, exercised his right to vote, the head of the Electoral Observer Mission of the Inter-American Union of Electoral Organizations (Uniores), Wilfredo Penco, made This is a preliminary balance of the day.
According to the also president of the Electoral Tribunal of Uruguay, there has been a population that has turned massively to exercising its civil right and highlighted that in general terms, the process is developing normally and as observers they hope that the polls “reflect what actually “the people think.”
In Atlapa, the presidential candidates José Raúl Mulino, from Realizing Goals and Alliance, voted; and Ricardo Lombana, from the Otro Camino Movement, two of the candidates who mark voting intentions along with Torrijos, according to several surveys.
They arrived accompanied by dozens of their followers, dressed in outfits full of symbols from each banner and euphorically cheering campaign slogans, at times verbally competing with opponents from other parties, but some ended with a hug and kisses, this news agency confirmed. because, as they say, politics does not overcome friendships.
Earlier, Mulino and family members had breakfast with the accredited press to announce that if he wins at the polls he will form a cabinet of good Panamanians and will have a respectful relationship with the National Assembly (parliament) whose composition will also be decided this Sunday.
Mulino, whose candidacy was challenged and later endorsed by the Supreme Court of Justice, replacing former president Ricardo Martinelli (2009-2014) disqualified by a sentence of more than 10 years in prison for money laundering and asylum in the Nicaraguan embassy, announced who will be a defender of private enterprise to steer the weak economy that the new administration will receive.
For his part, Lombana was optimistic and remarked that “Today Panama wins, today the youth wins,” alluding to a sector that he hopes will be one of those that offers him the greatest support.
Another of the candidates who early expressed his hope of victory was Rómulo Roux from the alliance between Cambio Democrático and Partido Panameñista and declared himself the best defender of the future for families.
For his part, Torrijos affirmed that the country has to redefine itself, and that Panamanians are going to regain hope, and the reasons to continue working, while pointing out that a new stage in republican history now begins.
While the candidate of the ruling Democratic Revolutionary Party and the Nationalist Republican Liberal Movement, José Gabriel Carrizo, chose to first visit the western province of Chiriquí and from there called to defend the vote.
Also the presidential candidate for free nomination, Zulay Rodríguez, stated that they hope that people “vote conscientiously.”
While the other independent candidate for the presidential seat Maribel Gordón, who voted at the José Domingo Escobar school, said along with her candidate for the Vice Presidency, Richard Morales, that the fact of being here, despite this being a clientelist process, is already a victory for the honest, hard-working and patriotic sectors of this country.
Some three million four thousand 83 Panamanians are authorized to define at the polls the new president and vice president of the country, 20 deputies to the Central American Parliament and 71 deputies to the National Assembly.
They will also choose 81 mayors, 701 township representatives and 11 councilors, all with their respective substitutes for the period from July 1, 2024 to June 30, 2029.
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