EDITORIALES
Publicado el 07-02-2009
Significant for democracy in the Americas has been the presidential election of Ricardo Martinelli in Panamá, a man who represents a serious and sensible ideological current in terms of human rights in the political and of free enterprise in the economic. This is a man who has acquired great wealth with honest work and constantly trying to improve himself in an exemplary way.
He came to power because of the will of a considerable majority of his fellow citizens who, knowing that his ideology is contrary to the populism now in vogue, supported him to reorganize Panamá and consolidate the institutions of the republic.
Certainly, several or many anti-democratic governments that pose as democratic in the Americas, although represented at the solemn inauguration of President Ricardo Martinelli and his Vice President Juan Carlos Varela, must have been surprised and dejected by the victory of a serious man who has all the characteristics of a statesman, although this might not be his academic background. However, he is a citizen who is determined to carry out his work with a serious ideological sense within the norms of representative democracy.
It would have been terrible for democracy in the Americas that Panamá had fallen into the populist abyss as has happened in several republics of the continent that are now in jeopardy of ceasing to be republics because of the demagoguery of their rulers set upon deforming the democratic life of their nations.
The speech made by President Martinelli on his inauguration described, with simple words, what his regime would be, reducing the scope of the government to the benefit of the citizenry. He began by receiving the presidential sash wearing formal suit, different to what some rulers are wearing now who seem to be in costume when one compares them with the traditional customs in official ceremonies.
In his speech, he said the following: “Panamá has to be a leader of freedom and justice, not only here in our home, but in our region and our continent”. He added that, “As President, I will do everything within my power to advance the ideals of a free economy, defying the ideological pendulum in Latin America.” These are significant words that reveal a firm stand on behalf of the political seriousness of democracy in the region.
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