(Panama-Guide) By SANDRA ALICIA RIVERA for La Prensa - President-elect Ricardo Martinelli said he would review the new "decentralization" law because the money earned by the Panama Canal can not go straight into the hands of the municipalities without any kind of oversight.

The law, approved last Saturday by the National Assembly, establishes that the money from the Program of Communitarian Development (Prodec) will pass without any kind of restriction or limitation to the provincial councils, which - in the government that takes effects starting on 1 July 2009 - will be dominated by the Partido Revolucionario Democrático.

“This is not the way the Prodec was structured, which should be respected, so that they can not steal the money generated by the Panama Canal; what's more, there are serious problems in education and health that can not be fixed at the level of the municipalities," he said.

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