Former President of the Republic Martín Torrijos questioned the current leadership of the ruling Democratic Revolutionary Party (PRD) and the intentions of some of its members to promote their expulsion from this political group founded by his father, former general Omar Torrijos.

Last week Víctor Chachi De Gracia, former PRD prosecutor and current member of the party’s Election Commission, announced that once Torrijos’s nomination as presidential candidate of the Popular Party (PP) for the elections of 2024, it would be challenged.

In this regard, the former ruler described these intentions as sad. “The PRD expelled Torrijismo and now they want to expel the Torrijistas; that doesn’t make any sense, if we all know what they represent, we all know that they are not up to what the country feels and what the membership itself feels as well. of the party”, specified Torrijos, who aspires to occupy the presidential chair again, but this time nominated by the PP.

He added that the PRD was distorted after pointing out that the weight of the party leadership is not what the party membership reflects or feels. 

“It is a very negative weight, because they effectively link us to all the bad things that have happened, particularly in this period, and they do not link us to the future,” he said.

“Unfortunately I have to run away from the PRD given the reality that those who today have the party under their control, of those who decide at will and in some cases how they have been able to circumvent internal democracy, reserving positions only for themselves and among themselves. demonstrated that this political leadership of the PRD does not have a Torrijista content,” he said.

He maintained that those who have felt betrayed by this political leadership within the PRD see a new opportunity to participate in politics and to first retake the country and “later we will concentrate to see what happens with the party.”

He stated that society feels disappointed and said that he hopes and will make every effort to try to convince them that indeed we are not condemned to live under this regime and under this circumstance “where corruption and economic interests prevail in politics.”

“The bad interests have agreed to use the political parties and politics to then, from power, distribute the contracts and that is what basically has to change. That does not come from now, after I left (of the Presidency), what prevailed was the culture of the ticket, that is, the whole world either bought or sold.

In this regard, he argued that at some point it will be known what is happening with the money from decentralization.

“Those who today believe they are invisible […] everyone will know what they did, with the public administration there are no secrets. No matter how much you try to hide and not provide information, people know perfectly well what happened. Part distribution and try to circumvent wills through the funds that the government is transferring (from decentralization) to people who at a given moment are in a political campaign,” concluded the former president.