Enrichment seen as thriving as Martinelli campaign slogan boomerangs

“They [politicians] arrive with empty pockets and leave millionaires" was the campaign slogan  of Ricardo Martinelli  before he won the presidency in 2009. 

In his inaugural speech, on July 2, that year he – promised that his government might sometimes slip up, but  their hands would not be in the till.{jathumbnail off}

His complaint, that  there were politicians who lived in opulence, has now become a boomerang  says La Prensa as  seven out of ten Panamanians say that among politicians there are those who are enriching themselves improperly.

The figures come from the latest Unimer public opinion poll commissioned by La Prensa and held  acrossthe country, between June 23 and 27  with a margin of error of 2.8%.

Only 25% of respondents believe that corruption in Panama has declined, while 28% believed  it to have increased, and 44.4% are convinced that corruption has remained the same in the two years the government has been in office.