In compliance with Decree No. 348 of July 3, 2003, in its article 2, the Ministry of Education (Meduca) carried out the electoral process on March 31 to elect the principal and substitute members of the educators and parents of family, before the Regional Commissions for the Selection of Teaching Personnel, elections that are in charge of a National Electoral Board.
On October 26, the teachers who represent the various teacher unions in the country were sworn in, as principal and substitute, in the positions of representatives of the regional electoral boards, located in the commissions of Bocas del Toro, central provinces, Colón and Central Panama.
The president of the National Electoral Board, Pedro Pablo Arosemena, said that this exercise is carried out every three years and the commissions are in charge of making the appointments of educators and collaborate with Meduca in this work, in addition, documentation is collected from the organizations that nominate members to the various regional commissions.
He stressed that, “in the monitoring of the elections that have been carried out in the different schools, expectations have been exceeded in terms of the participation of the more than 46 thousand teachers who exercise suffrage with transparency.”
“For the next few days, when the results of the elections are available, a formal act will be held in which the Electoral Tribunal participates so that they attest to the results of the vote, so that the process ends correctly and they are disclosed to the winners”, added Arosemena.
The general secretary of the Association of Teachers of Panama (Asoprof), Fernando Ábrego, said that “the teachers’ electoral party is important because they show signs of civility, of how the elections should be. Today, the representatives of the Selection Commission of Bocas del Toro, Chiriquí, central provinces, Colón and Central Panama will be elected.
