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Moscoso should be investigated for corruption
PANAMA.—79% of Panamanians think
that Mireya Moscoso, the president of that country,
should be investigated for alleged acts of
corruption committed during her term in office,
which ends on September 1, according to a survey
published this Sunday by La Prensa daily, AFP
reports.
The survey, undertaken by the
Latin Network Ditcher and Neira, covered 1,227
people with a 2.9 margin of error, and threw up that
only 19.2% of those interviewed felt that the leader
should not be investigated, while 35.5% claimed that
Moscoso “has profited or directly benefited from”
corruption.
“It is a fact that the general
perception is that my government has been corrupt,
but that perception is not true,” the Panamanian
leader stated.
However, Moscoso’s government is
concluding marked by claims of corruption, the
bribery of legislators to appoint two magistrates to
the Supreme Court of Justice and approve an
industrial complex, compounded by misappropriation
of public funds for the remodeling of the
presidential rest house.
Poverty in Panama affects 41% of
its three million inhabitants, and Moscoso leaves an
external debt of $6.64 billion, up $1.058 billion in
relation to 1999.
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