While still facing almost a dozen corruption investigations former President Ricardo Martinelli is still seeking a return to the political stage, and on Friday, September 25  The Electoral Tribunal (TE) recognized the group Realiendo Metas (RM) as a political party in formation, and gave it the go-ahead  to collect the 39,296 signatures needed to become a party.

To achieve the status of a collective in formation, RM contributed 3,979 signatures,  of which  3,812 of them were valid.

Martinelli and his followers went to the TE yesterday to collect the documentation. Marinelli who had previously run for president on a campaign slogan “In the shoes of the people” promised that, through this platform, he will return "quality of life to the people", employment, health, education and, above all, he added, there will be "a ticket in everyone's pocket." In his last campaign he had mocked previous administrations whose leaders had “arrived with empty pockets and left with them full.”

Martinelli is the founder of Cambio Democrático (CD), but Rómulo Roux took control of that party from him in the internal elections of January 21, 2018.