Deputy faces ethics committee over media goof

A  STATEMENT  implying that many deputies handed out National Assembly license plates  has put CD Deputy Juan Poveda into more hot water.

He made the allegation after one of his advisors, using a vehicle with an Assembly license plate was arrested  carrying a kilo of cocaine, leading to an investigation of organized crime links in the Assembly.

Now Povede faces a complaint made to the Credentials Rules, and  Ethics Committee  by  Panameñista   deputy Luis Barria The chairman of the Credentials Committee, Jorge Ivan Arrocha said that Poveda, in a media  interview, said he had given a duplicate plate to his office and said that  all the members of the Assembly did the same.
Arrocha considered Barria’s complaint valid, because Poveda is saying: “all deputies are committing an offence, without evidence.”

“We are believers that the plates must be exclusively for the deputy and his dependent family; not assistant or lawyer or secretary or friend,” he said.