Corruption is eating us: Martín Torrijos

Panama is going from “tumbo to tumbo and corruption is eating us up,” said the presidential candidate for the Popular Party (PP), Martín Torrijos Espino, in a meeting this weekend with leaders of the San Miguelito district.
If elected in the general elections of May 2024, the former president said, he will try to recover and activate the different areas such as the Social Security Fund (CSS), which is on the verge of bankruptcy.
Meanwhile, the community leaders of San Miguelito told him about the difficult situation they are going through due to the accumulation of garbage, unemployment, lack of water, high crime rates, alarming school dropouts and the mismanagement of decentralization funds. among other problems.
Other social difficulties that they referred to were the high cost of public transport tickets on internal routes and the abandonment of the elderly.
Faced with this social panorama, Torrijos Espino assured that “I am not going to fail them and I will do everything in my power to get the country out of the crisis it is in,” and insisted that it is urgent to restore the confidence of the people.
“In 2004 I found a country quite similar to the current one, a country full of debts, with high unemployment and with few prospects, we had to put the house in order and this time it will not be different, it is an obligation to regroup and with leadership to rescue Panama,” he said.
Regarding the issue of municipal decentralization, the ex-president categorically repudiated the use of State resources for political proselytism, such as vote buying.
He also referred to the juegavivo (bribes) that occurs in public procurement, because the same companies are always awarded the tenders, so the rules of the game must be changed to make them transparent.