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The Supreme Court of Justice of Panama declared unconstitutional the quarantine by gender and the hourly curfew according to the last number of the personal identity document.
The measure had been implemented in the provinces of Panama and Panama Oeste at the beginning of June 2020 as a mobility restriction due to the covid-19 pandemic.
However, the court's decision, which was released on Monday after a year and four months of health crisis in Panama, "did not censor the measures by themselves."
In a statement, the judicial body explained "that the measures demanded materially affected or restricted freedoms and human rights, so a minister does not have the power or authority to take them."
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"A ministerial resolution, such as the one that occupies our attention today, is not the ideal normative instrument to take measures such as those that are inserted in the act in question. In that sense, because it is the regulation of a code (in this case, health) It must be done by means of an executive decree, "the document details.
The ruling sparked multiple reactions.
With the decision at this point, the lawyer Ernesto Cedeño compared injustice with late justice, but despite this, he stressed that there is a precedent.
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"Launches a foundation so that the Ministry of Health never, in the future, through a ministerial resolution can restrict a constitutional guarantee. If it is going to apply the Sanitary Code, it must go to the executive power and it is through an executive decree that a guarantee can be restricted temporarily, momentarily, while a pandemic lasts, "the lawyer explained to CNN.
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The ruling occurs just when in recent days the Chamber of Commerce of Panama warned that "the economic situation exceeds the health situation."
The president of that union, José Ramón Icaza, said at a press conference that he hopes that the government, as a result of the Supreme Court of Justice ruling, "will react and proceed to lift the various mobility restriction measures that it has implemented in the country".
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"We as a Chamber of Commerce have indicated, and this ruling strengthens our position, the need for the immediate lifting of mobility restrictions, the curfew and quarantines, but also the importance of respecting the fundamental rights of citizens, of the Panamanian, in terms of mobility in the country, "said the businessman.
This Tuesday, in the weekly report televised on the national chain to present the situation of the pandemic in the country, the Minister of Health, Luis Francisco Sucre, said that "there is no worse blind than the one who does not want to see and there is no worse deaf than the one who does not want to listen ", explaining that" the fight with covid-19 has forced us to seek a balance between health, the economy and social peace, and has technically and scientifically demonstrated that the measures that have been taken by the national government have yielded results. "
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