Biografía Martín Torrijos |
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ESP - Martín Torrijos Espino (Ciudad de Panamá, 18 de julio de 1963) es el presidente constitucional de la República de Panamá. Está casado con Vivian Fernández de Torrijos, con quien forma un hogar integrado además, por sus hijos: Daniela María, Martín Omar y Nicolás Antonio.
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ENG - Martín Erasto Torrijos Espino (born July 18, 1963, in Chitré, Herrera) is a Panamanian politician and the current President of the Republic of Panama. Torrijos was elected President on May 2, 2004. As the candidate of the Democratic Revolutionary Party (PRD) – running as the Patria Nueva alliance, with the support of the smaller People's Party (PP) – Torrijos won the presidential election with about 47% of the vote, defeating three rivals. His closest challenger, former President Guillermo Endara of the Solidarity Party, conceded defeat after finishing 17 percentage points behind Torrijos. The result had been widely expected: prior to the vote, Torrijos was well ahead of his three competitors in the opinion polls. Este detalle ha cambiado su opinión sobre Martín Torrijos ? He took office on September 1, 2004.
Torrijos ran as the PRD's candidate in the 1999 Panamanian presidential election, finishing in second place after Mireya Moscoso of the Arnulfista Party, whose husband had been deposed by Omar Torrijos in a 1968 coup d'état. Mireya Moscoso's government ended with an approval rate of about 15%, mostly because of corruption scandals and incompetence, on which Torrijos capitalized successfully with a campaign that had three major slogans: less corruption, create more jobs and improve security.
His administration has taken focused on specific tasks, including fiscal reforms and social security reforms (now completed) and, as announced on April 27, 2006, the Panama Canal expansion project that was approved in a national referendum on October 22, 2006, in accordance with Constitution. In November 2006, Torrijos sponsored the Latin American and Caribbean Congress in Solidarity with Puerto Rico’s Independence in favor of Puerto Rico's independence and made an energic call to the United States to recognise the independence of Puerto Rico. In late April 2008, he met with Raúl Castro in Cuba to talk about signing an energy bill. He expressed interest in doing so.
12th Dec 08 |
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