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Weekly Report - 03 December 2015 (WR-15-48)
PANAMA: Varela under fresh pressure over public corruption
The government led by President Juan Carlos Varela faces mounting popular discontent in Panama vis-à-vis public corruption. This after the approval of a new law slammed by civil society groups as promoting impunity (provisions of which have since been struck down by the supreme court of justice [CSJ] as unconstitutional), and the discovery of a corruption ring in the judiciary.
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