party, there may be any number of reasons why the President would seek to undermine her. It has been suggested by the anti-abortion movement that Odio Benito's permissive stance on abortion motivated Pacheco to move against her In any case, various women's groups mobilised to campaign for her readmittance.[https://web.archive.org/web/20040602042819/http://www.women.ucla.edu/csw/ICC.html She was eventually renominated by Panama, whose then president, Mireya Moscoso, is another noted activist for women's rights. Odio Benito was thus the only candidate not to be sponsored by her own nation. Nevertheless, she was elected in the first out of thirty-three rounds of voting, indicating strong support from the States Parties.