2024 Panamanian general election
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General elections are scheduled to be held in Panama on 5 May 2024.[1] Due to constitutional term limits, incumbent president Laurentino Cortizo is ineligible for a second consecutive term.[2]
Electoral system
Of the 71 members of the National Assembly, 26 will be elected in single-member constituencies and 45 by proportional representation in multi-member constituencies. Each district with more than 40,000 inhabitants forms a constituency. Constituencies elect one MP for every 30,000 residents and an additional representative for every fraction over 10,000.[3]
In single-member constituencies MPs are elected using the first-past-the-post system. In multi-member constituencies MPs are elected using party list proportional representation according to a double quotient; the first allocation of seats uses a simple quotient, further seats are allotted using the quotient divided by two, with any remaining seats are awarded to the parties with the greatest remainder.[3]
The President is elected through plurality vote in one round.
Presidential candidates
Publicly expressed interest
- Ricardo Martinelli, former president of Panama and leader of Realizing Goals.[4]
- Ricardo Lombana, former presidential candidate and leader of Movimiento Otro Camino.[5]
- José Gabriel Carrizo, current vice-president of Panama and member of Democratic Revolutionary Party.[6]
Opinion polls
| Pollster | Date | Sample size | Martinelli (RM) | Lombana (MOC) | Carrizo (PRD) | Roux (CD) | Other |
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| Gallup Panama | 11–16 March 2022 | 1,200 | 56.6% | 13.3% | 7.2% | 2.4% | 2.3% |
| Gallup Panama | 5–9 February 2022 | 1,200 | 57.7% | 12.8% | 5.1% | 4.1% | – |
References
- ^ "Electoral Tribunal of Panama launched General Elections Plan for 2024 with technical assistance of International IDEA". www.idea.int. Retrieved 2022-04-25.
- ^ "Decree of the electoral court for the holding of elections" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2019-09-15. Retrieved 2018-11-18.
- ^ a b Electoral system IPU
- ^ Pinto, Alberto (2021-11-10). "Ricardo Martinelli confirma sus aspiraciones a la Presidencia de la República en el 2024". Panamá América (in Spanish). Retrieved 2022-04-25.
- ^ "Política en Panamá: Lombana reitera el llamado a los independientes a unificar una 'visión de país' hacia el 2024". TVN (in European Spanish). 2022-02-07. Retrieved 2022-04-25.
- ^ "Panama´s ruling party sets course towards 2024 presidential elections – Prensa Latina". 2022-03-28. Retrieved 2022-04-25.
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