“Disabled” Ricardo Martinelli wins low turnout presidential primary
As expected, former President, Ricardo Martinelli, won the presidential primaries of the Realizing Goals (RM) party, that he founded and funded.
After 5:20 pm on Sunday, July 2 the national director of the Electoral Organization, Osman Valdés, made the call to Martinelli, to inform him about the unofficial results that made him the winner as RM’s presidential candidate.
Together with Martinelli, the lawyer Rubén Darío Campos, the businessmen Francisco Ameglio and David Ochy participated as presidential candidates.
According to information from the RM party, 234,700 people were registered [until January 31, 2023] and qualified to vote.
The results of the Electoral Tribunal reflect the participation of 25%. 56,000 votes were counted in favor of Martinelli.
The “disability” that he used to attempt to postpone the New Business trial did not prevent Martinelli from voting
Around 10:30 am, he arrived at his polling place at the Richard Neumann Institute, to vote.
Despite the fact that the disability was due to an operation, the former president walked to the polling station without any inconvenience reports TVN.
The New Business case is related to the alleged commission of a crime against the economic order in the form of money laundering, for the purchase of the Panama América Publishing House (Epasa) in 2010, for $43.9 million.
