Panama’s president-elect  Laurentino "Nito" Cortizo, said affirmed on Tuesday, May 21  that the USA-China trade war  "not only affects the interoceanic Canal but" the world. "

Cortizo  warned that The US  and China  commercial  war "affects the world, you are talking about two great elephants", so it is "expected that both countries understand the great effect that not only has in Panama but in the world."

Cortizo and his elected vice president, José Gabriel Carrizo, spoke with journalists after the official ceremony in which the Electoral Tribunal (TE) handed them the credential that accredits them for the 2019-2024 period.

Cortizo, 66, won the elections on May 5 with 33% of the vote and will take office on July 1 to replace the ruling president  Juan Carlos Varela.