The former secretary general of the ruling Democratic Revolutionary Party (PRD), Pedro Miguel González presented Sunday his candidacy for the Presidency for the political group that must choose its presidential standard-bearer in the primary elections on June 11.

With González, Vice President José Gabriel Carrizo and the deputy and president of the National Assembly, Crispiano Adames, there are now three confirmed presidential candidates in the internal contest of the PRD.

"We came to present our candidacy for the Presidency for the party that Omar Torrijos founded, because this country needs a new course and that course of social transformation can be given by the party that Omar founded, but with a different leadership from the one that we have in the government and the one we currently have in the party," González said.

“Today we begin to build the new future of Panama. We are going to achieve that alliance to transform it into a welfare society and leave behind the social inequity that we live in.”