Impunity means renouncing democracy – Transparency International

“If the corrupt get away with achieving impunity thanks to the chaos generated in the Judicial Branch, then we will be renouncing our democracy,” said the  Foundation for the Development of Citizen Liberty,  thd  Panamanian chapter of Transparency International in a statement released Wednesday, August 15.

The release comes after Attorney General, Kenia Porcell said that the interim president of the Supreme Court of Hernán De León told her that he had been recorded and it was intended to take down the wiretapping case against ex-president Ricardo Martinelli.

De León has denied that he suffered any kind of pressure.

The Foundation said that in the face of this reality “there are few ways that really achieve effective changes “.

Among those ways are that the judges resign, refer to De Leon and  José Ayú Prado resign.

According to Porcell, De León told him in a meeting that “Ayú [Prado] uses me,  but I also use him.”

Another alternative is for De León to resign “as is his obligation before any attempt to obstruction of justice, “said the foundation.

There is also the possibility that the Executive Branch appoints an independent, national and international, that “can carry out the tasks that obviously we have not been able to perform to straighten justice”.

In its statement, the Foundation said that the scandal “cannot be confronted by the Judicial Organ, because it lacks the necessary integrity and ethical structures, which should have been created with the postponed implementation of the Judicial Career “.