Balbina Herrera

...of Noriega in 1989. Martinelli, who was the candidate of the conservative Alliance for Change party, won a landslide victory of 59 percent to 36 percent over Hugo Chavez favorite Balbina Herrera in the May elections. Martinelli is a...

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Voters are choosing a new president between supermarket mogul Ricardo Martinelli, who has vowed to run the country like a company, and Balbina Herrera, a one-time leftist firebrand with links to former dictator Manuel Noriega.

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...popular approval. Campaigning on a promise of change despite years of record economic growth under the current PRD president, Martin Torrijos, Martinelli has maintained a double-digit lead over Herrera since December. Should Martinelli...

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...showed on Sunday. The poll, conducted by local firm Unimer and published in La Prensa newspaper, said 43.1 percent of voters planned to vote for Martinelli and 25.4 percent for ruling party candidate Balbina Herrera. Center-right...

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...links to the suspects. In investigating if they received money from Murcia, Panama's electoral tribunal on Friday stripped legal privileges from two presidential candidates, Balbina Herrera and Ricardo Martinelli. As part of the scheme,...

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...Martin Torrijos. Both Martinelli, 57, and Herrera, 54, supported the canal expansion, but recent world economic woes have generated uncertainty over the project, which is receiving $2.3 billion in international financing. The canal project,...

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The canal is Panama's economic motor and both Martinelli and Herrera supported its expansion, but the world's economic woes have generated uncertainty over the project, which is receiving $2.3 billion in international financing.

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...leadership wins in Latin America. First partial results gave conservative Martinelli an advantage of more than 20 percentage points over Balbina Herrera of the ruling center-left Revolutionary Democratic Party, or PRD, whose government has...

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...election with about 60 percent support. He beat Balbina Herrera, the candidate of the ruling Democratic Revolutionary Party (PRD), as well as former president Guillermo Endara, who lagged far behind. Voters say they were attracted to Mr....

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