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Laurentino Cortizo, favorite of the Panamanian presidency on Sunday, wants to be "the first worker of the country" to "save" Panama, thirteen years after his departure from the government because of disagreements with the US FTA.
At 66, this businessman and rancher, known as "Nito," is seeking an electoral victory that allows him to "bridge the gap of inequality and leave no one behind.", said AFP.
His supporters emphasize his humility and social sensitivity, while his critics accuse him of being surrounded by deputies accused of corruption scandals. He proclaims that under his reign he will not be "untouchable".
"Listen to me so that later, they do not say that they did not hear: we will do without stealing," he told his supporters during the presentation of his program.
His government plan includes the improvement of education, state reform, economic recovery, the fight against poverty and inequality and the improvement of the government transparency.
He also promised to create the Ministry of Culture and the Ministry of Women, to raise agricultural issues of state policy and punish companies accused of corruption.
"I want to leave a legacy," says this lover of chicken stew and cooked crab, who won his party's primaries with a wide margin.
When he is elected President, Cortizo will have succeeded in bringing back the Democratic Revolutionary Party (PRD, Social Democrat) founded by the nationalist leader Omar Torrijos (with whom he has a great physical resemblance), in power after a decade of domination by the opposition.
On horseback and cayuco
Originally from Spain and Greece, he studied International Trade in the United States, where he came to work at the Organization of American States (OAS) and met his wife, Yazmín Colón, who worked in the United States. nicknamed the "gringuito". With her, he had two children.
After asking for the vote on horseback and cayuco (rudimentary canoe), this disciple of Real Madrid and the Celtics of Boston was elected deputy of the Caribbean province of Colon in 1994. He was then elected president of the United States. National Assembly in 2000 and 2001.
Cortizo was appointed to his highest political post in 2004, when then President Martín Torrijos asked him to badume the post of Minister of Agricultural Development. In this position, it lasted 15 months.
He resigned because he felt that Panama should not accept the easing of sanitary regulations which, in his view, imposed the FTA with the United States.
Lover of high genetic cattle (he makes sure to milk, vaccinate and deworm his cattle), Cortizo insists that he "will save and transform Panama".
"On May 5, the Electoral Court will announce to the country that it has a new president and that this new worker in the country calls Nito Cortizo," he said with conviction.
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