The installation of this table was one of the agreements reached during the Single Table of Dialogue for Panama, which takes place in Penonomé, province of Coclé.
The technical table on education will be installed next Saturday, August 20. This act should have been held last Saturday, however, it was postponed at the request of the teachers’ unions.
This table will address issues such as the modification to Executive Decree 439 of 2020, which regulates the Public Procurement Law, in order to streamline purchases and determine how the increase in Gross Domestic Product will be distributed in the education sector, which will pass to 5.5% in 2023 and to 6% in 2024 and payments due to educators.
The installation of this table was one of the agreements reached during the Single Dialogue Table for Panama, which takes place in Penonomé, province of Coclé, where eight topics on the agenda are analyzed, covering: basic food basket, fuel, electricity, Cash of Social Security, transparency, corruption and monitoring of the technical tables. In many of the issues, consensus and dissent have been achieved between social sectors and the National Government.