Vice-mayor takes takes Christmas lights flack for Fabrega

Deputy Panama  Mayor Judy Meana was in the firing line at Tuesday’s Municipal Council meeting in the absence of José Luis José Fábrega who had earlier faced a barrage of online criticism over Christmas lighting.

Usually, the majority of the mayors are complacent with the administration of Fábrega.                                                                                           

 This time, issues such as dismissals, Christmas lighting, and the silence of the Municipality on the annulment of the Land Management Plan of San Francisco were questioned.

First up was the representative of Curundú, Senén Mosquera, who said there is “persecution” by the Fábrega administration against officials of that community board and he denounced the mayor’s dismissal of several of the collaborators of the corregimiento.

“I cannot remain silent when I see that on Christmas Eve. I think that the rank of mayor is too great for José Luis Fábrega. I, who was part of that campaign team, really feel disappointed,”

At the beginning of the administration, Mosquera was president of the Municipal Council and one of those closest to Fábrega.

There was also criticism of the silence that the Municipality maintains regarding the suspension of the San Francisco Land Management Plan, ordered by the Third Chamber of Administrative Litigation of the Supreme Court.

The mayor of that corregimiento and a member of the PRD Carlos Pérez Herrera asked the Municipality to rule on the matter. “Right now we are in a legal limbo and I ask that a commission be called to deal with the issue,”

CHRISTMAS LIGHTING
The representative of Don Bosco, Guillermo Bermúdez, criticized the Christmas lighting and suggested that the Comptroller General review the contract. The lighting was also questioned by the mayor of Bella Vista, Ricardo Domínguez, and by the Mayor of Díaz, Ricardo Precilla.

Deputy Mayor Judy Meana t said she felt “beaten” because she was the person who came out to explain herself. “I tell journalists that I don’t go out to defend anyone [Fábrega], because here everyone has to be responsible for what they do,” she said.

As deputy mayor, she acknowledges that “there are flaws” in lighting. “What hurts me is what they are writing to me from false accounts and thinking people who have written asking if I have stolen the money,” she said.