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Caribbean & Central America - August 2018 (ISSN 1741-4458)

PANAMA: Getting ready for the primaries

Panama’s general elections are due on 5 May 2019, with a new government taking office on 1 July next year. That means that President Juan Carlos Varela is entering a ‘lame duck’ period, with just over nine months to go before the elections, and 11 to go before his term in office ends. At this stage a multitude of presidential hopefuls (over 20) are getting ready to contest primaries: it is still too early to identify the front-runners.

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