This situation ultimately did not occur thanks to a favorable ruling by the Supreme Court of Justice, which validated his participation in the presidential elections. During his official visit to Costa Rica, the Panamanian president reaffirmed his commitment to electoral transparency and the guarantee that the popular will will be respected in the Panamanian elections. Additionally, he recalled that during his conversations with various political actors, he warned them that the country could be plunged into a crisis if the constitutionality of his candidacy were declared void, affecting the will of the Panamanian people. 'Those who today are rending their garments, editorializing, and speaking of threats to the Electoral Tribunal (TE), are the same ones who, directly or indirectly, did not want my candidacy to be viable,' Mulino wrote. The President of the Republic, José Raúl Mulino, reacted today through his social networks to the criticisms received for his recent statements in Costa Rica. In his message, Mulino expressed: 'I have thought a lot about this reaction. I had to defend it against a powerful and tireless system. Today's is the typical hypocrisy that distinguishes them and the poverty of opportunism that characterizes them, many of whom did not exist as actors and today are protagonists of their own stature.'
