Panama's former security minister Jose Raul Mulino on Sunday stormed to victory in a presidential poll dominated by his old boss, the popular ex-leader Ricardo Martinelli, who buttressed his campaign despite being holed up in Nicaragua's embassy.
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00:00Jose Raul Molina has won
00:04of Panama in an election
00:06boss, ex leader Ricardo M
00:10of money laundering and h
00:12embassy in the capital Pa
00:15was once defense minister
00:17for the top job after he
00:20Martinelli who had been b
00:23in a strange campaign, Ma
00:26role drumming up support
00:28the embassy where he soug
00:31a victory speech sunday e
00:35Martinelli, my friend, mi
00:37Ricardo. When you invited
00:42I did not imagine this sc
00:45my turn and I took it on
00:48and humility. The preside
00:52say he would be a pro bus
00:54the central american count
00:56to its creditors while al
00:59forget the poor. Many vot
01:03for Martinelli, though op
01:05a puppet of the former pr
01:08Martinelli asylum, but Pa
01:10have blocked him from lea
01:13has promised to usher in
01:16infrastructure investment
01:18wage while suggesting he
01:21out of jail. Molina will
01:25for a five year term. Yeah