The presidential candidate for the opposition Popular Party (PP), Martín Torrijos Espino, said that the future of Panama is at stake in the elections on May 5 of next year, and it is a battle in which it is forbidden to lose, because it is a moral commitment to address the inequality into which subsequent governments have plunged the country.
“This election is so important that everyone’s future is at stake; This is not an election like others we have had, and I have already participated in several. This is a truly transcendental election,” said the former president of the republic in a vibrant speech at a meeting with collective activists, supporters, and community leaders from the 12 districts of this province.
He added that in this tournament it is necessary to ensure that Panamanians can live with dignity and without the need for them to depend on the influence of a deputy. “If we do not return the certainty that here the effort is worth it, we are hardly going to have a country that is governable,” he stressed.
Torrijos Espino warned that, in today’s Panama, some have abundance, while others barely have enough money to feed themselves. “This inequality into which governments subsequent to ours have plunged them is a moral obligation that we must attend to.”
He stressed that, if he reaches the Presidency again, he will show that there are Panamanians who do matter, and that this movement that he leads is not indifferent to the suffering of his compatriots.
He highlighted the effort of these inspired activists and supporters convinced that Panama has to be better; that there can be no families who lose hope of achieving better days.
“It is forbidden to lose this battle, it has to be a battle where we give everything, because the country requires that we give our best for that transformation, and I see in you the face of convinced people; I see in you the knowledge and the conviction to go out and make Panamanians understand and trust us to achieve the transformation and the certainty that there is hope and that it comes with our next government”, said Torrijos Espino, addressing the audience.
Likewise, he thanked the leadership of the PP for giving him the opportunity to share this vision of the country and of a project open to those who are members and those who are not registered in parties, because he understands the critical moment that the country is experiencing.
Accompanied by his wife, Vivian Fernández de Torrijos, the political leader assured that he does not intend to return “to ask the Panamanians to trust me to leave things as they are; it is unacceptable to leave the country we have.”
With evident emotion, Torrijos Espino affirmed that this campaign has a particularity: he is a Torrijista, son of General Omar Torrijos and an activist of the Democratic Revolutionary Party (PRD).
