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Weekly Report - 16 May 2013 (WR-13-19)
PANAMA: Ruling party names its man
President Ricardo Martinelli’s Cambio Democrático (CD) has ended speculation. Last week the former housing minister, José Domingo Arias, convincingly won the CD’s internal primary to take the party’s presidential nomination for the 2014 general election. While this should boost the ruling party, finally enabling it to unite and focus on the 2014 campaign, Arias faces a considerable challenge in narrowing the gap with the opposition candidates, the former Panama City mayor Juan Carlos Navarro, of the Partido Revolucionario Democrático (PRD), and Vice-President Juan Carlos Varela, of the Partido Panameñista, who are both far ahead in the polls.
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