Brief 1: the May 5 official results

PANAMA - In Brief 14 May 2024 by Marco Fernandez
The official results gave Mulino the victory in a winner-takes-all contest José Raúl Mulino, 64, was proclaimed president-elect on Thursday, May 9. with 33.4% of the valid votes in an election in which a record 77.6% of registered voters participated. The winning alliance was composed of the Realizando Metas party (led by former President Ricardo Martinelli, currently seeking asylum in the Nicaraguan embassy) and the small party Alianza. Both parties garnered 778,766 votes (86% from Realizando Metas). Ricardo Lombana, a populist from the right, obtained 24.6% of the votes, and Martín Torrijos, from the center, received 16%. Both were supported by single parties without alliances (MOCA in Lombana's case and Partido Popular with Torrijos). Rómulo Roux, who at one point seemed favored to win the election if JRM had been disqualified by the Supreme Court, ran for the Cambio Democrático alliance (138,276 votes) with Partido Panameñista (120,523 votes) and obtained 11.4% of the valid votes. The ruling party, PRD, was another big loser in the tournament, as its candidate, the current Vice President José Gabriel Carrizo, received only 5.9% of the votes, below the populist Zulay Rodríguez, who obtained 6.6% of the total. The composition of the National Assembly, the country's sole legislative body, will remain as follows, after two pending cases were resolved earlier in the week. Table 1National Assembly 2024-2029 results Source: La Prensa Already a large group of legislators from the CD vowed to join Mulino. Most of the PRD will join Mulino's initiatives (a before-the-election implicit accord was aired in the media). Reaching the minimum 36 votes will be difficult for the new ...

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