25 application to events having occurred since December 4, 1990. None of the articles of the Law established the requirement of a previous trial, since what was sought was the immediate dismissal of a group of workers. He did not participate in the preparation of Resolution N° 10 of January 23, 1991, of the Cabinet Council. Minister Ricardo Arias-Calderón sent him the draft bill, which was approved by the Cabinet Council, with instructions to the effect that he regard it as a priority issue and that he express an immediate opinion with respect thereto. He went to the office of the Minister and delivered his opinion verbally, having pointed out that his first impression was that such bill was going to be unconstitutional in some respects, and that it violated human rights since it intended to define conducts having been displayed as of December 4 or 5, and a summary administrative conflicts proceeding was established for all of the workers, whether they were or not protected by a special law. The Minister told him that the problem was that the President wanted that bill to be discussed and passed that afternoon, since he was going to forward it immediately to the legislative body in order for it to become a law. The Minister did not take into consideration the legal reasons for which the Law should not be passed, since it was felt that it was a strictly political situation, a decision of the Christian Democratic Party. Law 25 grants the public servants affected access to an administrative and judicial revision of their cases. In Panama, the Supreme Court is the entity responsible for the control of constitutionality, that is, for determining judicially the existence of a defect of unconstitutionality in a law. b. Statement of José Mauad-Doré, General National Telecommunications Institute Manager of the In November, 1990 more than 3,900 workers were under his sphere of authority. Approximately in the month of October, 1990, a general request was set forth and submitted to the National Government by the Co-ordinating Organisation of State Enterprise Workers Unions. He knows about the promotional labour union activities carried out by the workers of INTEL, that is, the December 4, 1990, march, and the December 5, 1990, work stoppage. There were labour union delegates at the INTEL work sites who, according to reports by the administrative heads, were convoked, together with the workers union leaders, to meetings for motivation, encouragement and organisation of the march that took place on the 4th, and the work stoppage that had been scheduled for the following day. Said meetings took place approximately over the 10 days that preceded the December 4 march. He attended some of these meetings. The work stoppage organisers and promoters expressed to him that the reasons for the work stoppage were, in general, certain aspects of the political situation of the country which affected their condition as workers or citizens, and that these were not legal objections or legal type arguments, but instead a proposal of a rather national nature. At these meetings he suggested two things: that to participate in a march was a right that every citizen had, but that for the purposes of INTEL it had to take place after 4 o’clock in the afternoon, which was quitting time for the workers, and that the convocation to the work stoppage on the 5th bore no relationship to any problem in which the institution may have been involved. On December 5, 1990, in the early hours of the morning, a partial work stoppage took place at INTEL. The latter included personnel whose shift started at 7 o’clock in the morning and administrative office personnel whose shift started at 8 o’clock in the morning; these were hours of service to the public, which was affected as a consequence of said convocation. Approximately at 9 o’clock in the morning of the 5th, INTEL workers had gathered outside the work sites. Approximately as of 8 thirty and 9 o’clock in the morning, some executives and he approached these groups of workers to ask them to return to their jobs; some did so as of 9 in the