Panama City, March 27.- Panama’s ruling Democratic Revolutionary Party (PRD) is holding internal elections today to elect 4,200 delegates who will decide on the National Executive Committee for the 2024 presidential elections in two months’ time.
For some analysts, the prelude to the XI. Ordinary Congress on May 15 will be a thermometer against which its leaders, including the current Vice President of the Republic, José Gabriel Carrizo, will measure their leadership.
Along with Carrizo, who could cement his intentions of being the PRD’s preferred candidate to aspire to the Palacio de las Garzas (headquarters of the Executive), the current president of this group, Benicio Robinson, and his supporters who will try are the Maintaining control of the largest political organization in the Central American country.
They also point to Pedro Miguel González, who now serves as general secretary, still of low profile but who will strive to remain at the helm.
According to the researcher Edwin Cabrera, there have always been different currents of ideology and opinion in the PRD since it was founded in 1979.
In this context, Cabrera explained to the newspaper La Estrella de Panamá that at some point the group of companies, skilled workers, women and young people would be trends.
“Since it is a party with so many people, all these excited groups are trying to mark a position and an important readiness for war,” he specified.
He also believed that many of these groups lost their pugnacity because it seemed that the way politics was conducted within the PRD and other groups had changed; and appreciated that within the current administration of President Laurentino Cortizo, Robinson’s hegemony is maintained.
On the other hand, political scientist José Eugenio Stoute considers the election of the PRD delegates to be extremely important, since those who aspire to the presidency of the republic would have to get their majority support and control one of the two main positions. from the organization.
He stressed that this will be the litmus test for Carrizo, although for the time being everything indicates that no major obstacles will stand in his way.
For political scientist Richard Morales, Carrizo is certainly aiming for a large majority of delegates and winning allies on all positions, although he appreciates an unstable balance of power, a more divided party, which reduces the chances that he achieves the expected candidacy.
According to the electoral tribunal, the PRD, the one with the most supporters on the isthmus, is one of the political organizations (PP) along with the Panameñista Party, the Nationalist Republican-Liberal Movement (Molirena), the Democratic Change (CD) and the Popular Party .
It also references the Broad Front for Democracy (FAD), Realizing Goals, Alianza Party and PAIS (Social Independent Alternative Political Party). (LP)
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