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Caribbean & Central America - 20 January 2004
PANAMA: Torrijos gets off to a sticky start
Martin Torrijos, the front-runner for the presidential elections on 2 May,
saw his campaign get off to a sticky start. On 8 January, his campaign manager
and cousin, Hugo, resigned after becoming embroiled in allegations
of corruption. Torrijos's candidacy, backed by his father's political
machine, the Partido Revolucionario Democrático (PRD), is also being discoloured
by the way a former president, Ernesto Pérez Balladares, also
from the PRD, is trying to fend off allegations of corruption.
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