Feuding cabinet ministers an in house problem Martinelli

The public dispute between Education Minister Lucy Molinar and Minister of Public Security José Raúl Mulino that arose following a show of military power during the independence parades on the weekend has raised the ire of President Ricardo Martinelli .

Questioned by media in Chorrera on Thursday, November 8 he snapped that the squabble would be addressed "in house" and not in the media. He declined to elaborate.

The two ministers have been feuding since the independence parade on Calle 50 Sunday when security forces jumped from the end of the parade into the middle and displayed their full complement of heavy armament. Molinar said this was disrespectful to the student groups in the parade and sent the wrong message.
She said she warned the minister that the full deployment of the security forces was not prudent and said they should go at the end of the parade.
 Mulino blamed Molinar for the disorganization of the parade order.
The tension between the two ministers is the reflection of the crisis that has been developing within the executive executive, analysts say.
However, the differences of opinion between the two figures of the Cabinet has gone beyond annoying, because the National Police (PN) have not complied with the rules of patriotic parades and take the space of a school to parade .During the crisis inColons, for example, the positions of the two clashed over the role of the police in the protests.

Mulino said the PN was to defend Colpn, , but Molinar considered that during the clashes between protesters and police there were errors on both sides reports La Prensa.
Since the beginning of “change management”, Mulino has clashed with several of his counterparts. He faced off with  the former Minister of Government Roxana Mendez, now mayor of Panama, over the presence of police in prison. Mulino gave Mendez six months to train the custodians necessary, because he intended take the entire police force out prisons. To date this has not happened.
Mendez left the Ministry of Government and Jorge Ricardo Fabrega, co-partisan of Mulino in the Patriotic Union party, which disappeared after the merger Democratic Change (CD), took her place.
Mulino also had a clash with, the National Police Director Gustavo Perez, when he rejected the bill that would create the Justice Administration System that would replace today’s Disciplinary Responsibility Asset Management, an initiative proposed by Mulino. He then resigned "irrevocably". Perez was moved to the Security Council and the end, Mulino remained in office.
"The situation between Molinar and Mulino shows that the government team is not cohesive and we are seeing finding cracks between senior ministers," said political analyst Mario Rognoni and the governance of the President and is being questioned and this weakens him more. For this reason, says Rognoni,, the President must choose which ministers wants to continue and which want to leave.
Political analyst Renato Pereira, on the contrary, thinks Molinar is biased about the police. "The country cannot live without police," he said. However, he says the differences between two officials do not look good, because ministers in a Cabinet should be supportive and that there should be no place for public disagreements. He also considers that public clashes between ministers affect the image of unity that the Government needs to maintain.