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On August 16, 2020, Pierluisi won the PNP gubernatorial primary race against governor Wanda Vázquez Garced. With 75.6% of voting stations reporting, Pierluisi has won about 57.9% of the votes over Vazquez's 42.1%, clinching the nomination for New Progressive Party. [20] [21] On November 3, 2020, Pierluisi was elected as the Governor of Puerto ...
Pierluisi ultimately won the election on November 3, 2020, albeit by a narrow margin of 1.37%. As a result, this election was the closest race of the 2020 gubernatorial election cycle . Pierlusi's winning 33% of the vote was the lowest obtained by a successful gubernatorial candidate in Puerto Rico since the first direct election in 1948 .
The government of Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia was formed in the weeks following the 2020 Puerto Rico gubernatorial election [1] as he released a list of nominees for most of the positions before his swearing in on 2 January 2021.
Gov. Pedro Pierluisi announced Monday that Puerto Rico’s political status will be on the ballot in the general elections this November, and for the first time the island’s current status as a ...
Puerto Rico's Democratic Gov. Pedro Pierluisi said Wednesday that the island's years of fiscal turmoil are in the past, with public finances buoyed by economic recovery, a debt restructuring deal ...
The 2020 New Progressive Party primaries was the primary elections by which voters of the New Progressive Party (PNP) chose its nominees for various political offices of Puerto Rico for 2020. The primaries, originally scheduled for June 2020, were delayed until August 9, 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic .
Despite not having been confirmed by the Senate of Puerto Rico, Pierluisi was sworn in as governor, which prompted a legal challenge. Less than a week later, the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico declared that Pierluisi had taken office on unconstitutional grounds and removed him from office, effective 5 p.m. AST on August 7.
The 2020 Puerto Rico gubernatorial elections were held on November 3, 2020, with six candidates running for the office of Governor of Puerto Rico. Former Resident Commissioner Pedro Pierluisi, who Ricardo Rosselló chose to succeed as Governor of Puerto Rico after the latter announced his resignation, was declared the winner by the Puerto Rico ...