Among eight presidential candidates, Mulino marked a wide difference from his closest rivals since the closing of the voting centers and the beginning of the Unofficial Transmission of Results (TER) system.
The candidate from Realizing Goals (RM) and Alianza is ahead of Ricardo Lombana, from the Otro Camino Movement; former president Martin Torrijos (2004-2009), for the Popular Party; and Rómulo Roux, from Cambio Democrático and Panameñista party, in that order.
Mulino was able to run in this tournament after the Supreme Court of Justice endorsed his contested candidacy, replacing former president Ricardo Martinelli (2009-2014), the latter disqualified from participating in the general elections due to a sentence of more than 10 years for money laundering. of money.
Martinelli is now seeking asylum in the Nicaraguan embassy, in the capital of the Isthmus country.
64 years old, the standard bearer of RM and Alianza, who previously held the portfolios of Government (2009-2010), Security (2010) and Minister in charge of Foreign Affairs (April 2012), has a degree in Law and Political Sciences .
Mulino also obtained a master’s degree in Maritime Law from Tulane University, in the American city of New Orleans, Louisiana.
The former member of organizations such as the Association of Business Executives and the National Council of Private Enterprise now follows Martinelli’s lines with a plan called “Alliance to Save Panama”, which speaks of the ambitious promise of putting more “chen chen” (money) in the pockets of Panamanians.
He always remained a favorite in various polls to enter as the main tenant of the Palacio de las Garzas (seat of the Executive), despite the fact that a lawsuit of unconstitutionality of the position to which he aspires in this race weighed on him, due to his election as candidate presidential election was not decided in the RM primaries.
In his Government plan, to which Prensa Latina had access, he states that the domestic economy would grow by 7.0 percent.
To achieve this, among other initiatives, it promises to generate the largest “first job plan” in history, with thousands of new jobs, especially for young people.
It is also committed to ensuring that Panama occupies first place in Latin America on the list of countries with the highest minimum wage.
On the other hand, it advocates a novel road rehabilitation and construction program to improve the country’s infrastructure and generate work, in addition to launching the project of a passenger train from the capital to the city of David (Chiriquí), in the westernmost end of the country.
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