During the second meeting of opposition political parties, the presidents of Cambio Democrático and the Panameñista Party, Rómulo Roux and José Isabel Blandón, respectively, did not rule out an alliance for 2024, to prevent the “Democratic Revolutionary Party (PRD) from taking the State coffers.
Although this was not an issue discussed at the meeting of the party presidents, the possibility of this happening closer to the 2024 elections was left open.
“It is a meeting that seeks to strengthen the mechanisms for solutions to improve the country,” he said, stating that we have an absent government and that both President Laurentino Cortizo and Vice President José Gabriel Carrizo are focused on taking control of the PRD and taking control of the state coffers.
“We are obliged to look for answers today, not to wait two and a half years, but to look for solutions now,” he said.
While the president of Panama, José Blandón, said that it is premature to talk about the 2024 elections, and that they would not touch on the issue of political alliances today, he said that the main focus of these meetings is to talk about the high cost of life, basic basket, medicines and fuel and find common solutions that help mitigate these problems that affect the country.
“The issue of electoral alliances is not going to be touched on today because that is very premature, what the country expects right now from the opposition parties is that we supervise the work of the government, that we propose, that we criticize what is wrong, not that we are prematurely thinking about an electoral tournament for which there are still more than two years to go”, he said, assuring that they would also talk about the generation of jobs in the country and about the possibility of suspending the fuel tax.
