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Martín Erasto Torrijos Espino (born
July 18,
1963, in
Chitré,
Herrera) is a
Panamanian politician and the current
President of the Republic of Panama.
Torrijos was elected President on
May 2,
2004. As the candidate of the
Democratic Revolutionary Party (PRD) – running as the
Patria Nueva alliance, with the support of the smaller
People's Party (PP) – Torrijos won the presidential
election with about 47% of the vote, defeating three rivals. His closest challenger, former President
Guillermo Endara of the
Solidarity Party, conceded defeat after finishing 17 percentage points behind Torrijos.
The result had been widely expected: prior to the vote, Torrijos was well ahead of his three competitors in the opinion polls. He took office on
September 1,
2004.
Biography
Martín Torrijos is the son of
Omar Torrijos, who was
Panama's social reformer and military strongman from 1968 to 1981. The younger Torrijos studied political science and economics at
Texas A&M University,
College Station,
Texas,
United States. He is a graduate of
St. John's Northwestern Military Academy located in
Delafield, Wisconsin. During the presidency of
Ernesto Pérez Balladares (1994–1999) he served as deputy minister for the interior and justice. His most significant achievement as deputy minister was to sign into law the complete privatization of Panama's water utilities. When the new law proved unpopular the
PRD effected a reversion to the previous system.
Torrijos ran as the
PRD's candidate in the 1999
Panamanian presidential election, finishing in second place after
Mireya Moscoso of the
Arnulfista Party, whose husband had been deposed by
Omar Torrijos in a 1968
coup d'état.
Mireya Moscoso's government ended with an approval rate of about 15%, mostly because of corruption scandals and incompetence, on which Torrijos capitalized successfully with marketing campaign that had three major slogans: less corruption, create more jobs and improve security.
Actions on office
His administration has taken aim at specific projects, including fiscal reforms and social security reforms (now completed) and, as announced on
April 27,
2006, the
Panama Canal expansion project that was approved in
a national referendum on
October 22,
2006, in accordance with Constitution.
In November 2006, Torrijos sponsored the
Latin American and Caribbean Congress in Solidarity with Puerto Rico’s Independence in favor of
Puerto Rico's independence and made an energic call the
United States recognition of the independence of said
Latin American archipelago.
In late April 2008, he met with
Raúl Castro on
Cuba to talk about signing an energy bill. He expressed interest in doing so.
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