The Ministry of Health (Minsa) is analyzing the sanctioning of the people who demonstrated last Thursday night in front of the Jimmy's Grill, where the Democratic Revolutionary Party (PRD) lawmakers and party leaders met on Thursday night flouting quarantime rules.

 The restaurant and the PRD Party have each been fined $50,000.

Israel Cedeño, director of the Metropolitan Health Region, said on Radio Panama that they received complaints so that the protesters could be investigated and sanctioned, and the ministry's legal advisory team is investigating.

According to the complainants, demonstrators violated the stipulated curfew between 7 pm and 5 am

 PRD,  lasers, urged the health authorities to investigate the protesters. “ The PRD  has already been sanctioned and the Parrillada too. And those who violated the decrees without mask without distance are clearly identified?  San Francisco  Carlos Pérez Herrera wrote on Twitter

On Thursday , protesters with flashlights in hand, questioned the fact that citizens are asked to remain confined to avoid cases of coronavirus, but, deputies are allowed to open a restaurant for a political meeting. They demanded, among other things, equal treatment.

According to Cedeño, the  restaurant meeting violated several decrees, including the one , which ordered the temporary closure of various commercial activities, including restaurants.

It was established that they can only dispatch home deliveries or take-away orders; customers cannot consume the food on the premises. The measure that prevents meetings of more than 10 people was also violated.

. The Minsa, authority in charge of sanctions, is chaired by Rosario Turner, who along with her colleagues Doris Zapata, and Eyra Ruiz, minister counselor in health issues; They signed the call for the meeting of the deputies as directives of the PRD. Initially the site chosen was the Evergreen Building on 74th Street, San Francisco. But, later they decided to do it: in Jimmy's, one block away as explained by the secretary general of the PRD, Pedro Miguel González.