Presidential candidatea at election mass

Five of Panama’s presidential candidates attended an  Elections Mass presided over by Archbishop, José Domingo Ulloa, in the Cathedral Basilica Santa María la Antigua, in San Felipe on Saturday, May 4.

Attending were: Laurentino Cortizo, of the Democratic Revolutionary Party (PRD); Rómulo Roux, of Cambio Democrático (CD); and independent candidates Ana Matilde Gómez, Ricardo Lombana and Marco Ameglio. 

In his sermon the Archbishop asked  Panamanians to turn out to vote on  Sunday, is ”an act of responsibility and love of the homeland,”

He also requested that “the next president” should remove the shirt that identified him during the campaign and put on “the Panama shirt”.

The magistrates of the Electoral Tribunal also participated in the mass.