OPINION: Mayoralty race painful choices

The electoral offer for the city of Panama, political, economic and cultural center of our country, is painful: an ex-president without values or proposals that has been using tricks to evade justice for years; a veteran of parties and seats that has shown that he knows how to win elections, but something else? a novice politician, a precocious student of clientelism, who jumped into public life at the hands of Juan Carlos Varela and seems to be fired by him; and an independent of unknown generals. The capital comes from a progressive administration that had great mistakes, especially in terms of execution, but that prompted a coherent plan with the ideal of a city that we all want: more orderly, friendly to the pedestrian, with more parks, efficient services and a special interest for the culture. There is nothing to suggest that any of the current aspirants will continue that project or provide a better concept for the development of that space that is home to a large part of the inhabitants of this country. Not in vain a high percentage of respondents expresses their dissatisfaction by saying that they will vote for “none”, while the same remains unclear to whom they will vote. It will be a very difficult decision, without a doubt-LA PRENSA, Apr. 3