Mayor Bosco heading for the door and a plum job … or his he?

From the sidelines

Is he going or is he staying?

After president Ricardo Martinelli told the National Assembly that there was going o be a “big fat change," news quickly circulated that Mayor Bosco Vallarino was on the outs, and that in return for vacating his office in Casco Veijos  he would be given an ambassadorship.
But on Saturday afternoon (July 29) Vallarino who has drawn down the ire of Martinelli and Vice PresidentJuan Carlor Valarino, and most of the government, the mayor said he had not resigned..

His response came after the president asked him on Friday,  to submit his resignation.
Vallarino said onTVN News that he is working in his office and preparing a campaign against dengue fever following the start of the rainy season.

On Saturday afternoon Martinelli told local media that he had not spoken with Vallarino, "but this is unsustainable."

The president reiterated that "you cannot have a dirty city." When asked about statements Vallarino Martinelli said: "Juan Carlos Navarro had 10 years to provejhimself as mayor, and I have hardly had a year."

The mayor also acknowledged that some mistakes have been made.

Jonathan Swift, the Anglo-Irish satirist author of Gulliver’s Travels would have had a fine time with the “reality show” drama.
Where else would it be reported that a failed elected official was to be squeezed out after a year of incompetent management,; suspect purchasing; deals; failed projects; failing to recognize that he couldn’t sign a cheque for his wife to go on an overseas jaunt;  and achieving a negative grade in the in the polls of well over 70% and then being  offered a cushy overseas posting away from the media spotlight.
Reports in Panama’s leading Spanish newspapers and on the airwaves said that Mr Bumble would be gone on Monday (July 5), but maybe like Oliver Twist he’s asking for more.
The Vice president of Panama is also the head of the Panamañista Party, and is the man who encouraged his fellow party member to run for mayor.
Let’s hope his other choices turn out to better.
One person who has spoken out against the resignation demand’s of the presidential hierarchy is  ironically, Miguel Antonio Bernal, a mayoral candidate who ran against Vallarino.
Law professor Bernal, who most of the time is a logical man,  based his arguments not on the mayor’s performance level, which would have been a difficult task, but on the constitutionality of the President trying to ease out an elected official. Bosco today, who next? runs the argument.
One group who will miss his worship: Local cartoonists who have worn out many pencils caricaturing the rotund man who so desperately wanted to be mayor.
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