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PANAMA - Report 30 Jan 2014 by Marco Fernandez and Guillermo Chapman

According to the electoral law, candidates for the general elections must be ratified according to each political party’s bylaws three months before the May 4 event. Therefore, almost all the candidates are already in place: the menu has options for all political tastes. Fusion cuisine prevails in the presidential selection. The incumbent party, Cambio Democrático (CD) of President Martinelli is allied to MOLIRENA (another right-of-center party). MOLIRENA is a small, weak group that was in the opposition camp at the beginning of the Martinelli period (2009) but moved to the government’s ran...

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