CD candidate gave $150 for vote and nude photo – witness

A SECOND CD election victory of a candidate who used government funds during the campaign has been annulled. The Electoral Tribunal has ordered a re-run in circuit 2-4 (Aguadulce), initially won by Democratic Change deputy Noriel Salerno, who has also been accused of sexual harrassment .
Omar Cornejo, Popular Party candidate had contested the result.
Although TE estimators could not be called as witnesses at the hearing, counsel for Cornejo, Javier Ordinola explained that the audit report found that Salerno managed as a deputy in the period January 2013 to May 2014, $1,562, 331 through PAN (National Assistance Program)
In 2013, the report says, they transferred $ 682, 343 to four accounts. While in four months in 2014 $879 988 was passed along. All the orders were signed by Noriel Salerno.
The audit revealed that $1.1 million was spent on 58,000 bags of food. Distributed to win votes.
The Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF) transferred $1,410,000 Ríos Municipality of Jesus in Veraguas. Salerno, then deputy, managed the money for “social aid” in Aguadulce.
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During the Electoral Court hearing on Wednesday September 17, A resident of the village of Pocrí, in the district of Aguadulce, testified that 15 days before the election the then deputy and candidate for re-election for Democratic Change (CD) Noriel Salerno, put in her hands $150 as part of a “help” urgently requested, in return for a vote for him.
She made the statements under oath at the hearing against the proclamation of Salerno as an elected deputy, on Tuesday October 14, at the headquarters of the Electoral Tribunal.
She accused him of sexual harassment and said that when she received the “help”, Salerno, grabbed her hand and said: “I want a picture of you naked or in a bikini with the money.”
Given the statement, Salerno chose not to comment reports La Prensa
The most telling testimony heard on the first day of the hearing came from the same young woman who said “He gave me $150 to vote for him