“Grand Alliance” wants seats at dialogue table

Multiple organizations that feel they have been frozen out of the ongoing talks in Coclé have formed  the Great National Alliance for Panama and on Saturday expressed their “deep concern” in the sense that the single dialogue table that takes place in Coclé is taking place “between organizations that do not represent all of society.”

For the  Alliance for the existing table  the impression that “it is a monologue with ideological agendas that do not seek the solution of the real problems of the population” and rather “impose their ideas on all of us, without taking us into account.”

For this reason, the different organizations proposed expanding participation at the table “so that there is a true national dialogue.”

“The country’s problems cannot be solved by two or three groups, without considering the contribution of all sectors with the right to contribute,” they stated in a statement.

Currently, representatives of the United People for Life Alliance, the National Alliance for the Rights of the Organized People, as well as leaders of the Ngäbe Buglé region and peasant communities, with members of the Executive, participate in the single dialogue table in the Cristo Sembrador Center of the Diocese of Penonomé. The facilitator is the Archbishop of Panama, José Domingo Ulloa.

In total, there are eight central issues that are expected to be addressed at the talks table.

The new Alliance includes multiple chambers of commerce and business organizations.