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Article: RICARDO MARTINELLI SWORN IN AS NEW PRESIDENT OF PANAMA; A BUSINESSMAN COMES TO POWER.
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- NotiCen: Central American & Caribbean Affairs
- Article date:
- July 2, 2009
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Businessman Ricardo Martinelli became President Martinelli July 1, as he received the mantle from now ex-President Martin Torrijos. The new president promised a businesslike approach to government, with no time to waste in getting things moving crisply and efficiently along. His campaign also contained promises to move things noncorruptly and transparently along, seeing to it that individuals do not enter government broke and leave as millionaires. That seemed to be what most voters wanted as they elected for the first time a man without a party, one who came from outside the tight political traditions that have determined past presidencies.
Martinelli ...