Electoral Tribunal Will Wait To Read Supreme Court Decision in Bosco Vallarino Case

The Electoral Court judge (TE), Gerardo Solís said the entity bases its decisions on facts, and in order to completely understand and to see the consequences of the Supreme Court decision on the constitutionality of the retroactive elements of Resolution No. 2 of the National Assembly, from July 3, 2009, which returned citizenship rights to former Mayor Bosco Ricardo Vallarino, one must know the reasoning behind it. According to Judge Solis, one should wait to for the ruling to be issued in order to analyze it, in order to determine what is appropriate, because the country has seen an advance of the decision. He also said judges must act on facts, completed, therefore one cannot advance an opinion until the contents of the formal document are known. Similarly, he said Mayor Roxana Méndez was chosen by direct popular vote, as the Deputy and replacement for the former Mayor Bosco Vallarino, who was elected by a vote of Panamanians, and therefore she "is entitled to act right now" as the Mayor of Panama City, he said. He said it's important to analyze the opinion of constitutional experts, and that the public and express themselves freely. (Panama America)