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Revista Mundo Electoral dedicated to the Bicentennial edition

Revista Mundo Electoral dedicated to the Bicentennial edition

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The Minister of Culture, Carlos Aguilar Navarro, who presides the Bicentennial Commission, participated in the presentation of the magazine "The World Electoral" that in its issue N. 46 dedicated to the commemoration of the Bicentennial of Panama's Independence of Spain with valuable inputs about Panama's civic and democratic culture throughout two centuries.
The World Electoral Magazine, directed by Judge Alfredo Junca Wendehake, describes in its pages the different phases in the fight for the sovereignty, political and democratic evolution of the country.

"The Electoral World remains as one of the best specialized journals of the continent, and this special edition pays sincere tribute to both national and foreign artists, who for 40 editions have left their print on the pages of this publication," said Heriberto Araúz Sánchez, president of the Electoral Tribunal of Panama.

That issue includes the historic evolution of the Electoral Tribunal to guarantee civil rights and preserve the purity of suffrage, the identification of Panamanian people, the true registration of their birth, marriage and death. Thus, you will find in the magazine articles of the substantive directors, national director of Cedulation, Gilberto Estada and Sharon Sinclair of Dumanoir, national director of Civil Registry.

For his part, Carlos Aguilar Navarro, Minister of Culture, expressed his satisfaction with his invitation to this launch of this great contribution that represents a compendium of the development of democracy in our country during these years of Republican life, and I see that it contains very interesting articles in the development of the same system of electoral tournaments and the evolution they have had. "

It seems important to us that all the institutions have been identified with saving historic memory in their areas of work to commemorate the bicentennial of independence of panama from Spain, I believe that this is one of the best ways to celebrate the date is that rescue, those points that point to us how we are doing things well, looking for best practices of the past and how we have advanced with those that can be improved, "remarked Aguilar Navarro.