no re-election campaign irks deputy

PANAMEÑISTA Party, deputy  Katleen Levy,  has complained to the magistrates of the Electoral Tribunal (ET)  of the citizen   “no re-election” campaign and asked them to “ take action on the matter“, because it ensures that the ethical pact is not being respected

She made her complaint to the magistrates who attended the Assembly’s Budget Committee meeting on Wednesday, August 22.

Levy, who became the youngest deputy in the legislature when she was elected in 2014, quickly learned the tricks of the trade from her fellow representatives of the people and constantly made headlines.

This week she finally filed her taxpayer-funded staffing report, demanded by the Comptroller early in the year. She has 32 on her payroll earning from $400 to $2000 a month but provided no evidence of their work responsibilities or hours on the job.

She is a frontrunner among globetrotting deputies notching trips to Morocco, Belgium and Lithuania among others. She has also had her name (illegally) on government vehicles and used sleight of hand tricks to get constituents into the Christmas ham line-ups. What she has achieved outside of that is hard to trace which may be why she is on the “no-to re-election’ target list

“What are you going to do about it? Because we are in this covenant, and I feel that we all owe it respect, ” she told the TE judges

According to Levy, the media, creatives, and people who manage social networks, have a “strong campaign of  “no to re-election”, which she respects, but warns that  “if a person or official fulfills his or her job, the electorate e has every right to re-elect. “

“We have to be clear that most of these networks are managed by people  like those who say to me, ‘pay me this a month and I do not blow you’ They tell me that I am a poli- influencer, for the number of followers that I have, but there are many influencers who are offering to speak for or against a candidate. They are being paid, and are people who have been sentenced for robbery, family and women abuse, and then we are the bad guys,” she complained.

She suggested to the magistrates that they issue “a resolution dictating measures for the organizers of the no-re-election” campaign to be punished.