Citizens to march for anti-corruption funding

WHILE THE National Assembly debate will hold key show posts during the next year, citizen groups, concerned at the dragging pace of corruption investigations, will be back on the streets, demanding that legislators wake up and smell the odor.

 A call for more funding for Panama’s judicial system and the Public Ministry to help them cope with the overload of corruption cases arising from the Martinelli Administration was made on the steps of the Supreme Court on Wednesday June 24 . when representatives of 25 civil organizations, ranging from lawyer associations and business organizations to civil rights groups and trade unions met to plan a march against corruption and impunity.
The March “ All together against corruption” will take place on Wednesday July 1 and will start at 5:00 pm, in front of the Attorney General’s office at Parque Porras and will end at the National Assembly, said professor and lawyer Miguel Antonio Bernal, one of the organizers of the activity.
“We will express the need for funds to be assigned to the Judicial administration and the Public Ministry to conduct investigations ” said Dagmar Araujo Alvarez, president of the Panamanian Association of Business Executives.
The activity coincides with the election to renew the leading figures of the Assembly.