Dimitri Flores, a independent candidate seeking to stand in elections in 2024, posted the video from the scene after his aircraft crashed in a mountainous area in western Panama.
The helicopter was carrying six people, including Mr Flores, all of whom have since been rescued.
Some of them have broken bones.
“We had an accident here, brother, here at 4,500ft (1,400m) in the mountains,” Mr Flores says in the video, while showing the wreckage of the helicopter in dense foliage behind him.
The presidential candidate provides a rough location of the crash and says that several were injured: “We have some broken legs and arms between us. There’s six of us. But we have to thank God for being alive.”
He gives a rough location for the crash but does not provide details as to what caused the helicopter to crash.