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Political Scandal in the Panama Parliament

A scandal erupted in the Panama Parliament during the interrogation of the Minister of Social Development. Officials staged loud support actions, preventing deputies from asking questions, and parallel events were organized to disrupt the session.


Political Scandal in the Panama Parliament

While the minister was answering the questionnaire, there was a horde of officials (presumably from Mides) cheering for Carles and booing those who had any questions. Let's hope that invitation was not a blatant attempt to quorum the session and prevent the minister from answering the questionnaire. The minister must have a serious eyesight problem. HOOLIGANS. By the way, the cleaning was organized at the same time that Minister Carles was speaking in the legislative plenary. They only wanted to listen to the chorus of bodyguards. 'HARMONIOUS COLLABORATION'. They say that the president of the Assembly was called from San Felipe — and not precisely from the Cathedral — to demand that they leave Minister Carles alone. Camacho even asked the deputy president, Jorge Herrera, to call 'to order' those 'rude' people who had additional questions for the minister. The director of Senniaf, Lilibeth Cárdenas, invited 63 deputies to the cleaning of the CAI in Tocumen, but not one confirmed their attendance. When deputy Alejandra Brenes heard that act of denial, she replied that the legislative commission on Women, Childhood and Youth — which she chairs — had already documented eight reports. HOOLIGANS. In the middle of Holy Week, there were deputies determined to turn Wednesday into a witch's day, in their eagerness to sabotage the interrogation of the Minister of Social Development, Beatriz Carles. On the part of RM, there were persistent requests to verify the quorum and only one deputy from that bench was present for most of the session; the rest came and went from the hemicycle as they pleased. Thank goodness they didn't listen to him. STIGMA. Minister Carles maintains that, on her tours of the shelters, she has not found 'anomalies to report'. All they needed was to wear t-shirts with the slogan 'Not one step back'.

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