Mayor’s $120 million dream beach facing more opposition

Anti-beach demonstrators

 
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The future of the  Panama mayor’s dream beach project fronting Calidonia and Bella Vista, which will cost $120 million if it comes to fruition is still in doubt, as opponents prepare for more demonstrations, claiming the money could be better spent, while Mayor Fabrega is seeking ways to get citizens approval.

Carlos Lee, president of the Municipal Council, said that, in the session on Tuesday, March 3, some councilors said they prefer to have a referendum while others support the alternative of citizen consultation, but reiterate that the intervention of the Electoral Court is requested Electoral as a guarantor of this process.

The Mayor announced on February 11, a new change of date and place for the conduct of the citizen consultation for the project of “Integral Recovery of Public Use Spaces, Urban Mobility and the beaches.

The date was scheduled for March 12 and the location was changed to  the Vasco Núñez de Balboa Convention Center, of the Hotel El Panamá.

The project has aroused the rejection of different sectors of civil society. The first date had been set for February 17, later, for March 11, has now been reported to be on the 12th of the same month, at 5:00 pm

According to the Mayor's Office, the consultation is carried out in accordance with the provisions of Law 37 of June 29, 2009, which decentralizes public administration, modified by Law 66 of October 29, 2015.

A company linked  to Vice President José 'Gaby' Carrizo and his family that has  left unfinished works in Coclé, paid for with government decentralization funds says a La Prensa investigation.