OFF THE CUFF: Scoundrels and tunnel vision

Cambio Democrático (CD) deputy Sergio Chello Gálvez, a self-anointed “sexual buffalo”  returned to his old stomping ground  in El Chorillo on Saturday, April, 27, where he is renowned  for his annual distribution of tax-payer funded  Christmas hams to constituents

 He was making the rounds in his campaign to become mayor of the capital city a slot that became available after the Electoral Tribunal ruled that ex-president Ricardo Martinelli was not eligible to run because he was not resident in Panama in the year prior to his nomination by the party he founded, funded, and ruled. Martinelli was self-exiled in Miami, warming a cell in a US Federal jail.

Chello who also wants to be re-elected as deputy of circuit 8-7. walked the main streets of the corregimiento accompanied by former first lady Marta Linares de Martinelli who appeared to be suffering from tunnel vision.

Gálvez asked that in the next elections there be a “punishment vote for the government of Juan Carlos Varela.”

Martinelli Linares seconded this request and added that we must vote for all CD candidates “to get the scoundrels out of the government.” She and her two sons and some dozens of “scoundrel’s” from her husband’s administration are facing corruption investigations.

She also called for the votes for Gálvez as mayor of the capital and for Mayín Correa (recently accused of racism)  as deputy of the circuit 8-8.