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May 4 2009, AP

Conservative supermarket magnate Ricardo Martinelli won Panama’s presidential elections in a landslide Sunday, promising to guide the country through the world economic crisis and an ambitious expansion of the Panama Canal.

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Conservative candidate Peter MacKay, right, and his mother Macha MacKay, arrive at a Central Nova polling station on Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2008, in New Glasgow, N.S. The incumbant minister is running against Federal Green Party leader Elizabeth May.