The leader of the Movement Another Way, Ricardo Lombana, referred this Thursday on Radio Panama to the issue of political parties, assuring that there are currently groups that have become electoral companies.
“They register people and nothing else happens, the person is just a registered identity card number, and the person receives a call when the elections come, you get to that table and you have to vote hook to that number and that’s it; that is not a living party, it is not an organization through which you can transform your community”, he explained.
He added that in Otro Camino there is a direction for citizen participation within the party. “As of May 22, when we are formalized, we are going to offer citizens different channels, forms and spaces for meeting and participation, not when the elections come,” he said.
This new group is preparing national elections to choose national leaders, known as conventional or even delegates.
He stressed that, for the first time, a party in formation is holding national elections for its first constitutive convention, which will take place on April 3.
“We have almost 700 candidates, fulfilling gender parity. That day the first National Board of Directors of the Otra Camino Movement will be elected,” said Lombana.
