Mega-Port Project Catching Political Flak
Published by Panama Guide at 5:59 pm under Infrastructure Upgrades
By Carlos Estrada Aguilar for La Critica - The decision of the Executive branch of government to award a contract in a direct form and without a bidding process the concession to build and operate a container port in Farfán for more than $600 million dollars has generated a degree of distrust between business and the political class. Opposition politicians are saying to do so would be a violation of the Fiscal code. Yesterday the president of the "Vanguardia Moral de la Patria" political party, Guillermo Endara, described the decision by the government to be a "administrative atrocity", and said that when he is elected president of the Republic in 2009 he would revoke it. (more)
"These contracts with these sums that are so large make it possible to think that there are frightful amounts of bribes being paid. They paint everything and make it pretty, and say they are going to do a great thing, but under this mask is a mountain of pus," he said.
In the opinion of the President of the "Cambio Democratico"
