Speaking to Radio Panama, the general secretary of the National Union of Workers of the Construction Industry and Similar (Suntracs), Saúl Méndez, said that the president of the Republic, José Raúl Mulino, is lying to the country when he claims that the initiative includes proposals from all sectors, including the worker.

The spokesman of the alliance United People for Life specified that during two months in thematic tables to collect proposals, authorities such as the Minister of Economy, Felipe Chapman, the Minister of Health, Fernando Boyd, and the new director of the CSS, the businessman Dino Mon, made it clear that in the end, they would have to go to the Legislature in case of claims about the reforms.

Nor did they deliver to the collectives a draft of the document, to be analyzed in depth, Méndez warned, and pointed out that they are trying to impose that text in extremis before December 31, applying a similar modus operandi as in the case of the 2025 Budget or the appointment of Mon to head the CSS, despite popular rejection.

Méndez recalled that when the National Assembly approved a one-year contract between the State and Minera Panama, a subsidiary of the Canadian multinational First Quantum, the people took to the streets a year ago and forced the Supreme Court of Justice to declare it unconstitutional and close the operations of the copper mine in Donoso (Colón).

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