Disqualification of democracy

It is not my purpose to give a lecture about political science, nor civic education. This is a call to be careful.

The current government, in agreement with a large part of the Creole political class, with traditional economic power, with certain Panamanian media platforms and in complicity with foreign powers, takes on the task of derailing what should be a democratic and sovereign state. There are those who say that power holds back human beings, but what we see today is the last straw.

I was talking to a journalist friend who he commented that on his continent one speaks of “law” when one speaks of state interventionismbeyond its competence and everything that is allowed by the relevant electoral legislation.

Certain governments have used legal entities and resources to stay in power, beyond what is provided for in the constitutional norms of their countries. They apply the interpretation of the law at will, reaching disqualify candidates, regardless of their popularity at the national level.

We are witnesses of this arbitrary disqualification in neighboring countries and here, in our backyard. The most recent example of this is experienced by the two current candidates for President of the Republic, although I will refer to only one here, without diminishing the other. Jurisdiction in electoral matters belongs to precisely the Court that bears the same name. Obviously, as we are in an atypical scenario, it was up to the judges of that instance to interpret the circumstances of his candidacy by analogy. Jurisprudence will in due course lead us to arrange this type of cases properly, and we hope that they will not be repeated again.

If someone asks me what was the mistake or Mr. Mullin’s sin was precisely that he ran the current preference of the electorate. Another rooster would crow, not Molire’s, if José Raúl were in the basement. A lawyer, neither fast nor lazy, on the payroll of I don’t know who, had a brilliant idea to present Court appeal on unconstitutionality against the presidential candidacy Alliance parties and achievement of goals.

It is sad that she was accepted. Much of the Panamanian legal community has already spoken out, as have other important figures in Panamanian national affairs. It is interesting that not all of them are party members or supporters of Mulin, but they are Legal experts who still believe in our institutions and what should be.

If José Raúl Mulino is disqualified, he is not the one who loses. Democracy and institutions will be lost. I feel that we are inside a time machine, which, like deja vu, takes us back to the year 1984, not exactly the year Orwell. PRD seems to have a creepy way of celebrating the anniversary, that he is a fraud, doing what he only knows, cheating. It’s a shame they couldn’t get a worse candidate this time, who knows everything but table four or eight. One who also has no idea how to run a company. He cheerfully offered to increase the minimum wage to one thousand balbos. The complicit silence of trade unions is strange. They will be afraid of resenting the rulers.

The others who are silent complicity are left candidates within the electoral tournament, several of them graduated from the Faculty of Law and Political Sciences. Someone should have told them that silence makes them look prettier, but they should only apply it in discussions to stop offering gold and Moor without blushing. Obviously, since they don’t reach

tick inside polls, An easier way is to applaud the disqualification. What they don’t understand is that they are sponsoring the rejection of democracy and that it could happen to them.

Readers, the above is solid proof of who not to vote for. None of these candidates value what democracy is supposed to be. Even less know how to appreciate what

Panama really needs it. Say goodbye to workarounds the problem of water, unemployment and security.

Say goodbye to the opportunity to improve your quality of life. If we do not defend ourselves together, the right of candidates to compete freely will be a godsend to us democracy and the inglorious return to dictatorshipwho replaced the uniform with a jacket and tie, but corrupt and ruthless like those colonels and generals in 1968.