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March 19, 2024

How Will Barring Martinelli Affect Panama’s Election?

Former Panamanian President Ricardo Martinelli was disqualified as a candidate in this year’s presidential contest due to a criminal conviction. // File Photo: Foreign Ministry of Panama.

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John Feeley, executive director of the Center for Media Integrity of the Americas and former U.S. Ambassador to Panama: “Ricardo Martinelli’s removal from the Presidential balloting is unalloyed good news for Panamanian democracy. He threatened to bend Panama’s governmental structures to his own ends, namely securing judicial impunity from past criminal convictions and future charges. With the Supreme Court’s dismissal of his final appeal, that threat is now removed, even if the clown show of his “refugee status” in Nicaragua’s embassy in Panama City has yet play its final act. Of greater immediate relevance is whether…”

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