"The President Cannot Put Anyone In Prison" - Ana Matilde Gomez
(Panama-Guide) By Marggie Trejos for El Siglo - During the last presidential election campaign, Panama's President Ricardo Martinelli publicly promised to put in prison anyone who steals, kills, or is corrupt, and now it looks like that's easier said than done. That is exactly what Panama's Solicitor General of the Nation, Ana Matilde Gomez, said yesterday during the program "Debate Abierto" on channel 4, noting that "no president can decide and take action to put a person behind bars, because they have stolen or committed some other act of corruption as promised by Martinelli during the campaign." "The president cannot put anyone in prison, it is the judges who decide who is going to jail and who's not," said Gomez.
