OPINION: The turn of the citizens

In the midst of a health emergency that has brought our economy to its knees, the institutional crisis that Panama has been experiencing for decades seems to have bottomed out, and now there are movements that seek not only to reform the current Constitution, but even to convene a constituent assembly to make a new one.  And while this latest movement takes shape, citizens continue to send proposals for constitutional reforms to the Ágora platform, which to date total 472, although eventually, this number may vary. These activities make it clear to us that citizens are fed up with misgovernment, with a lack of credibility, with increasingly weak institutions or with political castes that are above popular power.

The movements that seek to create or modify the Constitution seek to end the concentration of power in the different organs of the State or with the privileges of the deputies and other high officials. The last three governments, including the current one, have promised constitutional reforms that have not come to fruition. Now it is the turn of the citizens. LA PRENSA, Apr. 4