Navarro wins presidential primary promises clean campaign

Juan Carlos Navarro captured nearly 95 percent of the votes in the Democratic Revolutionary Party (PRD), primary on Sunday March 10 to become the opposition Party’s presidential candidate in the 2014 election.

Seventeen presidential candidates participated in the elections that began at 7:30 am with the opening of more than 900 polling stations which remained open until 4pm.

Navarro, who was elected secretary general of the PRD in August amid heavy infighting.
Earlier in the day Navarro, a former mayor of Panama, said that he will run a clean campaign and declined to respond to comments made yesterday by President Ricardo Martinelli who described him as an idler  and a Drone, with no private sector experience.
"I regret the statements of Mr Martinelli and I'm not going to make any comment," Navarro said. "I'm not going to run a dirty campaign."