Panama court is asked to cancel Hong Kong firm’s contract to run canal ports
by Mat Youkee in Panama City from on (#6V207)
Complaint by local lawyers to supreme court follows US demands to reduce China's alleged influence on waterway
Two Panamanian lawyers have lodged a lawsuit with the country's supreme court in an attempt to cancel a Hong Kong-based company's concession to operate two ports at either end of the Panama canal.
Their complaint - filed a day after the US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, told Panama's president, Jose Raul Mulino, to reduce China's alleged influence on the canal - argues that the contract for the two ports is unconstitutional.
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