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Martín Torrijos Espino (born 18 July 1963, in Panama City) is a Panamanian politician and the current President of Panama.Torrijos was elected President on 2 May 2004. As the candidate of the Democratic Revolutionary Party (PRD) – running as the Patria Nueva alliance, with the support of the smaller People's Party (PP) – Torrijos won the presidential election with about 47% of the vote, defeating three rivals. His closest challenger, former President Guillermo Endara of the Solidarity Party , conceded defeat after finishing 17 percentage points behind Torrijos.
The result had been widely expected: prior to the vote, Torrijos was well ahead of his three competitors in the opinion polls. He took office on 1 September 2004.
Martín Torrijos is the son of Omar Torrijos Herrera, who served as Panama's de facto president from 1968 to 1978. The younger Torrijos studied political science and economics at Texas A&M UniversityTexas A&M University is a land-grant, sea-grant and space-grant institution located in College Station, Texas. The university is centrally located, approximately equidistant from three of the 10 largest cities in the United States ( Houston, Dallas and Sa, College StationCollege Station is a city located in Brazos County, Texas, and is situated in East Texas. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 67,890. The main campus of Texas A&M University is located here. Geography College Station is located at 30, TexasTexas joined the United States of America as its 28th member state in 1845. It has the postal abbreviation TX . The state name derives from a word in a Caddoan language of the Hasinai, tejas meaning friends or allies Spanish explorers mistakenly applied t, United StatesThe United States of America also referred to as the United States U. America ¹ or the States is a federal republic in central North America, stretching from the Atlantic in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west. It shares land borders with Canada in. During the presidency of Ernesto Pérez Balladares ( 19941994 is a common year starting on Saturday, and was designated the International year of the Family''. Events January events January 1 North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) goes into effect January 6 Nancy Kerrigan is clubbed on the right leg by an– 1999For the album by Prince, see 1999 (album 1999 is a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar), and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the UN. Events Kosovo War Former child star Gary Coleman files for bankruptcy Y2K prep) he served as deputy minister for the interior and justice.
He also ran as the PRD's candidate in the 1999For the album by Prince, see 1999 (album 1999 is a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar), and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the UN. Events Kosovo War Former child star Gary Coleman files for bankruptcy Y2K prep Panamanian presidential election but was beaten into second place by Mireya MoscosoMireya Elisa Moscoso Rodriguez de Arias (born July 1, 1946) was the President of Panama from 1999 to 2004, representing the Arnulfista Party. Moscoco has an interior design diploma from the Miami Dade Community College, and she is the widow of former pres of the Arnulfista Party, whose husband had been deposed by Omar Torrijos in a 1968 coup d'état. Mireya Moscoso's goverment ended with an approval rate of about 15%, mostly because of corruption scandals and incompetence, on which Torrijos capitalized successfully with a campaign that had three top priorities: fight corruption, create more jobs and improve security. Moscoso's hand-picked candidate ended in a distant third place with about 16% of the vote, having to carry the government's huge burden.
Martín Torrijos Espino is married and has three children.
