パナマ's 大統領,/社長-elect 公約するs to help 直す/買収する,八百長をする canal water problems, build major train line

By Valentine Hilaire and Elida Moreno

PANAMA CITY, May 8 (Reuters) - パナマ's 大統領,/社長-elect, Jose Raul Mulino, said on Wednesday he will 勧める 国会議員s to 認可する a 法律 enabling the パナマ Canal to build large water 貯蔵所s in the 直面する of an 前例のない 干ばつ that has 攻撃する,衝突する the capacity of the 決定的な 水路.

In an interview at his office in パナマ City, Mulino said he wants the 法律, which would 認める the 水路 許可 to operate on land needed for the 貯蔵所s, to be the first 認可するd under his 行政. The canal, he 追加するd, needs a 解答 to the lost 歳入 linked to 逆の 気候 条件s.

Mulino also said he 手配中の,お尋ね者 to make a major new tourist train - 類似の to one built in Mexico- a 旗艦 事業/計画(する) of his 行政.

"One of the first 決定/判定勝ち(する)s I am going to 発表する is the 創造 of a 国家の 鉄道 (国際的組織の)事務局," Mulino said, 追加するing that 熟考する/考慮するs show the line could help 上げる 観光旅行,事業.

Mulino, a 64-year-old former 安全 大臣, won パナマ's 選挙 on Sunday with 34% of the 投票(する) and said his 政府 would be プロの/賛成の-投資 and プロの/賛成の-商売/仕事, 追加するing that the Central American country would 栄誉(を受ける) its 負債s, while he 公約するd to not forget the poor.

He won with the help of popular former 大統領 Ricardo Martinelli who was 閉めだした from running 予定 to a money laundering 有罪の判決. Mulino, who served as 安全 大臣 during Martinelli's 行政 from 2009 to 2014, had been Martinelli's 副/悪徳行為 大統領の 候補者 and took his place.

Fitch ratings in March downgraded パナマ's 負債 to 思索的な grade, 特記する/引用するing 会計の and governance 圧力s 悪化させるd by the 政府-ordered 終結 of a 巨大(な) 巡査 地雷 run by First Quantum Minerals.

Mulino said he was 確信して パナマ would keep its 投資 grade 率ing and that ratings 機関s would be 満足させるd with his 政府's 経済的な 計画(する)s for the country.

"I am sure that they (ratings 機関s) will give their 裏書,是認 to what we are going to 提案する," he said. "I'm really 肯定的な and 楽観的な."

Mulino also said he has spoken with さまざまな world leaders に引き続いて his 勝利,勝つ, 含むing U.S. 国務長官 Antony Blinken and Brazilian 大統領 Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.

After the talk with Blinken, Mulino 表明するd his かかわり合い to create a team 充てるd to 簡素化する the 過程 for U.S. companies to 投資する in パナマ, and also said he agreed with Lula to 調査する the 可能性 of パナマ's entering the South American Mercosur 貿易(する) 圏. (報告(する)/憶測ing by Valentine Hilaire and Elida Moreno; editing by Stephen Eisenhammer and Leslie Adler)

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