Panama City, Panama - May 5, 2024

Jose Raul Mulino, candidate of Realizando Metas y Alianza, has won Panama's presidential elections held on Sunday and has become the country's president-elect, as proclaimed by the Panamanian Electoral Tribunal, by taking 34.4 per cent of the vote, almost ten percentage points ahead of the runner-up. Mulino, 64, was the man chosen by former president Ricardo Martinelli, who has been banned from running for the elections - with a 77.4 per cent turnout rate - to elect Laurentino Cortizo's successor. He is serving a ten-year prison sentence for money laundering and is in the Nicaraguan embassy awaiting safe conduct to leave the country. In second place was the social democrat Ricardo Lombana, candidate for the diverse Movimiento Otro Camino (MOCA), with 25 percent of the vote, one of the few candidates who managed to obtain a better result than the polls predicted, which placed him between 12 and 15 percent of the vote. Behind Mulino and Lombana are former president Martin Torrijos, of the Popular Party (PP), with 16 percent, and Martinelli's former foreign minister Romulo Roux, of Cambio Democratico (CD), with 11.24 percent.

SHOTLIST
1. Various comments by Jose Raul Mulino after the results were known;
2. Excerpt from his speech to his supporters;
3. Various of the celebrations;
4. Various of people voting in Panama.