CD primary turnout well short of Martinelli forecast

THE TURNOUT of voters in the Cambio Democratico (CD) presidential primary was far short of the 250,000 originally predicted by party leader President Ricardo Martinelli.

According to CD figures 185,612 showed up to cast their vote for the candidate to face off against Democratic Revolutionary Party (PRD) nominee Juan Carlos Navarro, and the Panamenista leader Juan Carlos Varela, currently serving as the country‘s Vice President and a former coalition partner of Martinelli.
They chose, by a wide margin José Domingo Arias
Today people do not feel better than in 2009 and so did not come out to vote in the presidential primary said opposition (PRD) Deputy Leandro Avila on Telemetro Reports
"In 2014 the people will come out to vote, but to throw out the CD," he said.