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This article aims to analyze, from a legal and political perspective, the institutional design and the results of the empirical application of the recall in Panama. This mechanism of control of the representatives has not only been incorporated early in this country (in the 1972 Constitution) compared to the other Latin American States (those that adopted it did so from the 1990s), but also It presents two formats: as a popular recall and as a party recall, the second of them constitutes a complete novelty on the continent. In this work, therefore, we will make a chronological survey and study of the national legislation through which these two institutes were created and regulated, as well as an empirical study of the only two cases of recall application registered so far (both in party mode). The conclusions summarize the scope and limits of these mechanisms as instruments of democratic deepening and improvement of the representative system. |
