Pérez Balladares adds the support of Juan Carlos Navarro

Pérez Balladares adds the support of Juan Carlos Navarro

Both figures join forces to become the option in the primary of the party that is celebrated on September 16. Some 18 applicants signed up for the PRD presidential primary

The outlook within the Democratic Revolutionary Party (PRD) took a new turn.

Juan Carlos Navarro, who for the third time sought to reach the Presidency of the Republic, made the decision to decline to his presidential aspirations.

Navarro joins the candidacy of Ernesto Pérez Balladares, who intends to become the standard-bearer of the PRD for the May 2019 elections.

With the resignation of Navarro to his presidential aspirations are 17 candidates in the competition.

The PRD summoned its membership, registered until May 5, to elect its electoral offer in primary elections on September 16.

From La Estrella de Panama 

The Navarro - Perez Balladares unit proclaimed itself as the Torijista alliance. Both figures share ideals strengthened by historical and permanent militancy in the PRD. In addition, concrete proposals to eradicate the political clientelism that governs the destiny of the party and the inescapable need to introduce constitutional changes that strengthen the failed institutionality and the climate of corruption that affects the country.

"We are facing a crossroads where individualities do not fit," Navarro said in front of the people who accompanied him to report that he joined the candidacy of Perez Balladares.

According to Navarro, "the best way to shake off the government is a PRD alliance with the PRD." The PRD stopped governing Panama in 2009 after losing general elections at the polls.

The two elections after 2009 the PRD, has not been so favored at the polls for the office of president. In the elections of May 2014 his candidate, Navarro, was in the third position.

"It is necessary to prevent the varelismo continue having the command another five years with their chips, close friends in all political parties," said Navarro, who added that you can not 'have candidates who shun the debates'.

Pérez Balladares invited all the members of the PRD who wish to join the 'caravan of triumph'. "Everyone is welcome and welcome," said the presidential candidate.

The president Pérez Balladares, during his speech, stressed the need to 'recover the institutionality in the country, in addition to rescuing the National Assembly and have a judicial body that does not lower its head to anyone'. Perez Balladares seeks to repeat and lead the party to victory as he did in 1994 that managed to take the Presidency to a group that 5 years before had been left in ashes and discredited by its connection with the military dictatorship that ended with the invasion of the United States. Panama.

After announcing the decline of Navarro and the invitation made Perez Balladares to join to achieve the victory in May 2019, presidential candidate Zulay Rodriguez said he will not decline to his presidential candidacy.

Navarro came to the PRD from the hand of Perez Balladares and was mayor of the district of Panama twice, considered the catapult to become president.

In the race for the internal race of the PRD continue figures as Laurentino Cortizo, Camilo Alleyne, Gerardo Solis and Mitchell Doens, among others.