Tumbling the presidential candidacy of José Raúl Mulino at all costs was the objective set by his political rivals, a law firm, and media groups during the May 2024 electoral contest.
Behind the move, at least one name from a candidate in that election, a renowned law firm, and a figure linked to digital and print media come to light.
On March 10, 2024, Karisma Karamañites Testa and lawyer Carlos Ernesto González Ramírez, a partner of Roux at the firm Morgan & Morgan, began a WhatsApp thread focused on filing the lawsuit against Mulino's candidacy.
At that point, González asked Karamañites for FOCO to publish the lawsuit on its networks and to get people to file briefs in favor of the appeal they had prepared.
On the day it became known which magistrate would handle the case, González informed Karamañites: it fell to Arrocha.
González and Karamañites also contacted each other when the lawsuit was admitted and fell into the hands of the Attorney General of the Nation as the prosecutor in the case.
"I have asked, and many think it could not have been better," González responded as some media outlets began to link Karamañites to the firm Morgan & Morgan.
He was referring to the text of the lawsuit that González had sent Karamañites only for her to put her personal details on it.
When the results that declared Mulino the winner were made known, Karamañites began to feel González pulling away, and with it, she announced her resignation from FOCO.
"Do you know how the lawsuit should be fixed?" González asked Karamañites at that time, and she immediately responded, "Yes, of course."
Later in the conversation, Karamañites asked González if Rómulo was upset with her, and he replied, "Noooo."
"If you know of any intern who can attend the electoral court, let me know so I can send them to request those copies, less complicated Haha," were part of the chats directed by Karamañites to González, who at the time took the task of deleting what he replied.
"Mulino already said on TV that the lawsuit is from Morgan," González stated to Karamañites, but she warned him that on her LinkedIn she had registered as an assistant at the firm.
Amid this, Karamañites holds a conversation with Planells, who congratulated her on having filed the lawsuit against Mulino.
Later, he stopped doing so, exposing the detail of how he had manipulated Karamañites.
Just two weeks after Mulino's resounding victory, Karisma Karamañites Testa, the author of the failed unconstitutionality lawsuit that sought to overthrow the candidacy of the current President of the Republic, felt abandoned by the people who encouraged and pushed her to file the appeal with the aim of toppling Mulino.
"That Guerra has a corrupt face," González wrote to Karamañites.
Even Karamañites informed the lawyer from Morgan & Morgan that she was on her way to the court to file the lawsuit against Mulino's candidacy, but she complains that no one accompanied her.
In this part, Karamañites also lets it be known that González and Rómulo Roux's campaign were behind FOCO.
At that time, Karamañites was part of the FOCO working group but had worked as an intern at Morgan & Morgan, which explains the connection and trust with lawyer González Ramírez.
After this abandonment, Karamañites went on May 28 to the Second Notary of the Circuit of Panama to register her chat exchanges with two people who would be key in this plot: lawyer Carlos Ernesto González Ramírez, a partner at the firm Morgan & Morgan, to which the then presidential candidate Rómulo Roux also belongs.
This connection began to break when the Electoral Tribunal ratified Mulino's candidacy just one week before the elections.
"Lopera, I don't know if you are aware of this," Karamañites commented before taking and sending him her photo with the lawsuit on the steps of the courthouse building.
"The worst we've ever had."
"If he finds out that I drafted that, it will be tragic for me."
"I don't want to modify the format because I know that formalities are very specific," Karamañites told González, who then asked if she was going to present the lawsuit to the Supreme Court of Justice alone or if he wanted it to be something media-worthy.
She immediately asked: "Is that good?"
But in addition, Planells already had influence over the newspaper La Prensa.
"Those magistrates from the TE are an embarrassment. Those women are not only as spineless as the previous ones, but they are brutes. A real shame," González wrote.
"Should I get the bulletin for you tomorrow? Please reduce it, otherwise Rómulo is going to kill me. He is in Colombia."
Further along in the same conversation, Karamañites speaks of her drafting an article on Article 177 of the Constitution, and to this, González forwards the note published by the newspaper La Prensa on its digital platform and questions why they did not name her as the author of the lawsuit.
"Say it was an intern's work or something like that. How is he going to send me alone."
She even takes the time to write to him that she was sending him several photos for him to choose the prettiest one.
"Next to my ID, do I place my id number?"
"Tell Mauricio the same."
"Please deny that you have anything to do with Morgan."
"Yes, yes."
"I don't know."
"I already saw that it is in the general secretariat, but they do not clarify if I have to present a request for them to authenticate it or what the procedure is."
"The quality is terrible."
"Hahaha, he's making me practice law."
