
	Where results make sense

Topic: Panamanian election, 1999

Related Topics

Elections in Panama

Panama

In the News (Sun 27 Dec 09)

Northern Trust

Marvin Harrison

Peter Chernin

Gary Locke

Match Play

Penelope Cruz

Mickey Rourke

AR Rahman

Danny Boyle

Hugh Jackman

	Panamanian general election, 2004 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Republic of Panama held a general election on Sunday, 2 May 2004, electing both a new President of the Republic and a new Legislative Assembly.
		With nearly all the votes counted, Martín Torrijos of the Democratic Revolutionary Party led with 47% of the vote, followed by former President Guillermo Endara of the Solidarity Party, with 30%.
		In addition to its president and vice presidents, Panama elected a new Legislative Assembly (78 members), 20 deputies to represent the country at the Central American Parliament, and a string of mayors and other municipal officers.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Panamanian_election,_2004 (277 words)

	Panamanian general election, 1999 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Republic of Panama held a general election on 2 May 1999, electing both a new President of the Republic and a new Legislative Assembly.
		The winning candidate in the presidential contest was Mireya Moscoso of the Arnulfista Party.
		Following the legislative election, the Legislative Assembly contained the following party blocs:
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Panamanian_election,_1999 (105 words)

	AllRefer.com - Panama - Introduction \| Panamanian Information Resource
		Panamanian society in the 1980s continued to reflect Panama's unusual position as a transit zone and the home of the canal, factors that subjected Panama to a variety of outside influences and gave the country an ethnic diversity not commonly associated with Latin America (see Ethnic Groups, ch.
		Panamanian concern over possible United States intervention in Panamanian affairs based on this treaty was sharpened by various unilateral interpretations and conditions that were attached to the treaties by the United States Senate during its ratification proceedings.
		Elections were duly held in 1984, but widespread allegations of fraud, increasingly supported by credible evidence, undercut the importance of the event as a demonstration of Panama's return to democracy.
	reference.allrefer.com /country-guide-study/panama/panama11.html (5972 words)

	Central America: Panama Canal
		Panamanian nationalists resented the fact that only the U.S. flag was flown within the canal area.
		Flying the Panamanian flag in the canal area was a complicated issue for the United States.
		Panamanians nationalists continued to resent the fact that their flag was only flown in one location while the U.S. flag was flown at multiple locations.
	www.cet.edu /earthinfo/camerica/panama/PCtopic3.html (1192 words)

	SSHL: Latin American Election Statistics: Panama: Elections and events 1981-1999 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Pearson 1982: "Panamanian politics was clouded in mid-1982 by the ouster of Colonel Florencio Flórez Aguilar in a shakeup of the National Guard in a surprise announcement by President Aristides Royo on March 3, 1982.
		Chronicle of parliamentary elections volume 23 1984: "As a result of the elections for and the installation of a new 67-member Legislative Assembly on 6 May 1984, the 505-member National Assembly of Municipal Representatives--which was hitherto the country’s national legislature, last elected in August 1978--is to be abolished on 2 November 1984.
		Pérez 1995: "In 1991, partial legislative elections were held to fill nine seats for which results could not be determined in the 1989 elections; the PRD won five of the nine seats, and the government accepted the outcome" (page 136).
	dodgson.ucsd.edu /las/panama/1981pan.html (8999 words)

	History of Panama
		From the outset, Panamanian identity was based on a sense of "geographic destiny," and Panamanian fortunes fluctuated with the geopolitical importance of the isthmus.
		The colonial experience also spawned Panamanian nationalism as well as a racially complex and highly stratified society, the source of internal conflicts that ran counter to the unifying force of nationalism.
		On May 2, 1999, Mireya Moscoso, the widow of former President Arnulfo Arias Madrid, defeated PRD candidate Martin Torrijos, son of the late dictator.
	www.historyofnations.net /northamerica/panama.html (1219 words)

	Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 1999 - Panama (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Domestic and international observers characterized the elections as generally free and fair; however, several local contests were marred by reports of vote buying and in extreme cases, voter intimidation.
		There is some evidence that a constitutional provision reserving retail trade to Panamanian citizens originally was directed at Chinese immigrants, but government officials have stated that it serves as a barrier to prevent foreign retail chains from operating in the country.
		As is general practice in the country's public offices after elections, newly elected politicians and appointees began dismissing public workers immediately upon taking office to free up positions for loyal followers.
	www.usemb.se /human/human1999/panama.html (9747 words)

	Panama gets its canal back, by Maurice Lemoine
		There were screams of protest from Republican senator Ronald Reagan, who during the 1976 US election campaign had fulminated: "We built the canal, we paid for it, and we’re going to keep it!" Nonetheless, on 7 September 1977 President Carter signed with Torrijos the treaties that were to carry their joint names.
		For the Panamanians, it is a symbolic date that brings emancipation from almost a century of being under Uncle Sam’s thumb.
		The Panamanians had dreamt of a grandiose handing-back of territory, a magnificent reappropriation of land with the people surging into the Canal Zone that finally belonged to them.
	mondediplo.com /1999/08/06panama (4483 words)

	Elections: Latin American Studies: Collections: SSHL
		When the elections were finally held in May 1989, not only was Duque defeated, but the anti-Noriega forces had won by a margin of more than 2-1.
		Moscoso will be the Panamanian leader to receive the Panama Canal from the United States at the end of this year...[Moscoso won] almost 45% of the vote, to Torrijos’ 38%, to become the first woman president in the nation’s history" (page 1).
		All material contained in Latin American Election Statistics: A Guide to Sources is protected by copyright, and duplication or sale of all or part of any of it is not permitted, except that material may be duplicated by you for your personal research use or educational purposes in electronic or print form.
	sshl.ucsd.edu /collections/las/panama/1981.html (8971 words)

	Panama
		The Constitution and the Criminal Procedure Code provide for trial by jury at the defendant's election, but only in criminal cases where at least one of the charges is murder.
		The Perez Balladares Government never fulfilled its informal promise to seek revocation of the 1978 law that requires directors and deputy directors of media outlets to be citizens.
		Some organizations were particularly active in encouraging voter turnout for the May general elections and in assisting election observers.
	www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/1999/396.htm (9782 words)

	A short history of Panama
		Modern Panamanian history is shaped by its transisthmian canal, which had been a dream since the beginning of Spanish colonization.
		When elections are held in 1989, Panamanians voted for the anti-Noriega candidates by a margin of over three-to-one.
		In 1999 Mireya Moscoso, the widow of former president Arnulfo Arias Madrid, defeats as the PA candidate PRD candidate Martin Torrijos, son of the late dictator.
	www.electionworld.org /history/panama.htm (825 words)

	The Militant - Dec. 27, 1999 -- In Brief (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Protests demanding Panamanian possession of the canal have flared up over the years, and in 1964 police and U.S. troops killed 20 protesters as they attempted to fly the Panamanian flag in a Canal-Zone school.
		One academic reflected the widespread national resentment among Panamanians of imperialism's role when he said, "Their attitude is absurd.
		Support for the Green Party jumped in the final lead-up to the election after it became a focus of attack by the National Party, which highlighted the party's support for decriminalization of marijuana use.
	www.themilitant.com /1999/6346/634631.html (1141 words)

	NotiCen: Central American & Caribbean Political & Economic Affairs, including Cuba (formerly EcoCentral); September 2, ...
		Panamanian policy has been to avoid armed confrontations with the Colombians and to stay out of their civil conflict.
		The election schedule was thrown into doubt when the Lavalas party of former president Jean-Bertrand Aristide (1990-1995) insisted that the Provisional Electoral Council, which worked out the electoral law, retain two Lavalas senators elected in 1997.
		Cancellation of the 1997 election results and the subsequent resignation of prime minister Rosny Smarth ushered in a period of political chaos.
	ssdc.ucsd.edu /news/claea/h99/claea.19990902.html (2478 words)

	CNN - Panama: 'The canal is ours' - December 14, 1999
		Panamanian President Moscoso, center, and former U.S. President Carter sail down the canal as part of the ceremony
		The canal is ours," said Panamanian President Mireya Moscoso after she and former U.S. President Jimmy Carter signed a document symbolically relinquishing the canal and the land surrounding it to Panama.
		The ceremony was held at Miraflores Locks on Panama's Pacific coast, not far from the capital, Panama City.
	archives.cnn.com /1999/WORLD/americas/12/14/panama.canal.03 (1045 words)

	CPJ Protests
		Prompted by a sharp increase in prosecutions of Panamanian journalists, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is writing to strongly condemn Panama's "gag laws" as a threat to press freedom, a violation of international law, and a blemish on Panama's democratic development.
		Panamanian journalists report that the rate of prosecutions has accelerated since August 30, 1998, when a public referendum on amending the constitution to allow a sitting president to seek a second term was defeated.
		On September 30, Brittmarie Janson Pérez, a Panamanian anthropologist and contributor to various Panamanian dailies, published a column in El Siglo in which she acknowledged she was the source of Rodríguez B.'s story.
	www.cpj.org /news/1999/panama4march99.html (1952 words)

	CNN In-Depth Specials - Panama Canal Handover - Troubled passageway
		When Panamanians threatened a "peaceful invasion" of the Canal Zone, the United States sent troops to back Panama's National Guard and canal police to repel the demonstrators.
		A three-day riot broke out when Panamanian students marched into the zone with their flag; 23 Panamanians and four U.S. Marines were killed.
		As soon as he took office he called for the immediate transfer of the Canal Zone to Panamanian jurisdiction, but he was deposed 11 days later when he tried to change the National Guard's leadership.
	www.cnn.com /SPECIALS/1999/panama.canal/stories/history (1636 words)

	U.S. is finally leaving the canal and its mixed legacy to Panama
		A short time later, the original Panama Canal treaty -- with Bunau-Varilla signing on behalf of the Panamanians -- gave the United States breathtaking authority to govern "as if it were sovereign" a strip extending five miles from each bank of the canal.
		Perhaps because of the dubious parentage of their country, Panamanians tend to be passionately nationalistic.
		Panamanians also must worry about pending environmental catastrophe.
	www.post-gazette.com /headlines/19991206panamacanal1.asp (2081 words)

	In Panama, Drug Money's Clout Outlives Noriega (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Among the evidence were credible reports received by CIA and DEA agents and U.S. diplomats in Panama that the 1994 election campaign of Perez Balladares had received hundreds of thousands of dollars from Castrillon through the candidate's vice presidential running mate, Felipe Virzi.
		Senior Panamanian officials have said that if Castrillon did give money to the campaign the donation was not illegal at the time because there were no laws restricting how much an individual could give, nor was it unlawful to take money from a criminal enterprise.
		According to U.S. and Panamanian investigators, surveillance reports and photographs of Castrillon during the two-week period before his arrest -- when he met several times with Pretelt -- were inexplicably omitted from the evidence files assembled for his Panamanian trial.
	www.mapinc.org /drugnews/v98/n1062/a05.html (2071 words)

	NucNews-World-1 9/2/99
		Three Panamanian government officials suspected of involvement in alleged smuggling ring were fired in June, after Perez Balladares learned of the investigation.
		Panamanian immigration records show that only 135 legal visas have been issued to Chinese immigrants this year, but community leaders say substantially more have arrived.
		That was followed by his party's crushing defeat in the presidential elections last May. He was also eased out of the party's top position, and two days ago, the party lost the majority in the national assembly when a small allied party joined the Arnulfista Party of President-elect Mireya Moscoso.
	nucnews.net /nucnews/1999nn/9909nn/990902nn.world1.htm (7264 words)

	Panama
		On December 27, 1989, Panama's Electoral Tribunal reinstated the results of the May 1989 election and confirmed the victory of opposition candidates under the leadership of President Guillermo Endara and Vice Presidents Guillermo Ford and Ricardo Arias Calderon.
		The Constitution was changed in 2004, however, and beginning with national elections in 2009, the executive branch will have only one vice president, and the membership of the National Assembly will be capped at 71.
		The treaties comprise a basic treaty governing the operation and defense of the Canal from October 1, 1979 to December 31, 1999 (Panama Canal Treaty) and a treaty guaranteeing the permanent neutrality of the Canal (Neutrality Treaty).
	www.factmonster.com /country/profiles/panama.html (2434 words)

	RADIO FREE EUROPE/ RADIO LIBERTY
		A second round of voting in elections to the lower house of the parliament have taken place in 47 districts where no candidate garnered the required 50 percent of the vote during the first round two weeks ago.
		The so-called Kaniv Four election alliance of Yevhen Marchuk, Oleksandr Moroz, Volodymyr Oliynyk, and Oleksandr Tkachenko have agreed to throw their support behind Marchuk as the challenger to incumbent President Leonid Kuchma in the 31 October presidential ballot, AP and Reuters reported on 25 October.
		Prime Minister Ivan Kostov on 24 October said that the results of the local elections are a "serious warning for the ruling coalition" but that the course of reform will not be changed, BTA reported.
	www.rferl.org /newsline/1999/10/251099.asp (6977 words)

	Red China: Gatekeeper of the Panama Canal -- November 1999 Phyllis Schlafly Report
		Clinton is hopelessly indebted to the Chinese and their allies in Indonesia for financing his presidential elections in 1992 and 1996.
		In 1996, when China was "testing" missiles to scare Taiwan before its election, the United States sent warships to the area and China responded by impudently threatening to "rain down fire" on Los Angeles from its China-based ICBMs.
		In 1962 we were worried about Communist Russia's nuclear missiles deployed to Cuba; in 1999 we face the possibility that Communist China may put its nuclear missiles in Panama for a possible flmail threat about Taiwan.
	www.eagleforum.org /psr/1999/nov99/psrnov99.html (2908 words)

	Panama voters bar president from re-election
		The outcome makes Perez Balladares a lame duck in the midst of a sweeping economic reform program, negotiations with Washington over the installation of a multilateral anti-drug center in the former Canal Zone, and the handover of the 84-year-old waterway -- which is currently run by a joint U.S.-Panamanian commission.
		But Panamanians were apparently more concerned with the concentration of power by one party and a single leader.
		The economic plan has modernized the economy but angered many lower-class Panamanians who were expecting jobs programs and more social spending due to the PRD's leftist rhetoric.
	www.chron.com /content/chronicle/page1/98/08/31/panama.html (834 words)

	The New American - Save Our Canal! - August 2, 1999 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		As I stated earlier, the impending transfer of the Panama Canal to the Panamanian government, under the circumstances which now exist, amounts to handing over control of the Canal to Red China, an aggressive, brutal, expansionist, totalitarian regime that has shown, by word and deed, that it is our enemy.
		We know that the Panamanian administrator of the Panama Canal Commission, Alberto Aleman Zubieta, is also the owner of a private company, CUSA, which has been awarded multi-million-dollar contracts to tear down facilities at the strategic Amador military base.
		In truth, Ritter was Noriega’s "point man" to the cartels and has been noted in the press for his many connections to the most notorious and violent of the drug capos.
	www.thenewamerican.com /tna/1999/08-02-99/vo15no16_canal.htm (4278 words)

	Panama, country, Central America: History
		New treaties were negotiated (1967), providing for Panamanian sovereignty over the Canal Zone, joint operation of the canal, and possible construction of a new, sea-level canal, but Panama refused to ratify them (1970).
		In 1987 a former officer of the Panamanian Defense Force (the expanded National Guard) publicly accused Noriega of ordering the murder of a prominent political opponent, manipulating election results, and engaging in drug smuggling with Colombian drug producers.
		On Dec. 15, 1989, the Panamanian legislature declared Noriega president and proclaimed that the United States and Panama were in a state of war.
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/world/A0860213.html (1007 words)

	NotiCen: Central American & Caribbean Political & Economic Affairs, including Cuba (formerly EcoCentral); December 16, ...
		During the ceremony, Panamanian President Mireya Moscoso said the transfer would consolidate Panamanian sovereignty as well as the recovery of its national territory.
		He reminded Panamanians during a television interview that the US was a partner in canal security even without an accord.
		In November, election magistrates asked that all government officials and political parties reach an agreement on the migratory crisis and especially on the citizenship question.
	ssdc.ucsd.edu /news/claea/h99/claea.19991216.html (2621 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)