"Safeguard our nation" - Colon Free Zone Users
The Supreme Court of Justice is kidnapped by vested interests, which have nothing to do with the correct administration of disputes and litigation in Panama. Yesterday, for example, a plenary session dominated by alternate magistrates demonstrated how willing the country's top arbiters are to submit, on their knees, the legal logic and institutional framework. The foolish insistence on committing a legal nonsense, as is the declinatory of the competition, and the even more absurd declaration of nullity of what was done by the magistrate Jerónimo Mejía, reveals the perfidious intentions hidden among the togas of the Palacio Gil Ponce. The entire country is hostage to legal insecurity, in the hands of magistrates who are willing to leave honor, integrity, and reason for unknown reasons, but which generate a repugnant suspicion. If their collusion is successful, the story will be in charge of putting them in their proper place. Today, the country dawns uneasily because we already know that we have an illegitimate and cowardly Supreme Court. They could do a favor to their true boss, the nation, and make their positions available since doing justice is a task that is obviously alien to them. -LA PRENSA, Dec. 7
The Association of Users (AU) of the Colon Free Zone has joined a fast-growing body of business organizations and citizen groups in both exhorting the judicial bodies and the administration to "safeguard our nation" as a mechanism to maintain the peace and stability of all sectors of the country, in the wake of the current crisis facing the administration of justice.
This, after the past the Attorney General of the Nation, Kenia Porcell, revealed that the interim president of the Supreme Court of Justice (CSJ), Hernán De Leon, went to her office to tell her that he had been wiretapped and that as a result of the content of the recording, “they” would be pressing to "knock down" the wiretapping case against former president Ricardo Martinelli.
The AU in a statement described as "worrying" a regrettable precedent of distrust in the ethics and transparency of the administration of Justice.
"Let us remember the importance of protecting the rule of law and the institutionality as guarantors of legal security, elements that directly affect the attraction of investments and that both result in the benefit of the economy and of all Panamanians, " says the document.
President Juan Carlos Varela has denied there is a crisis.
