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In 2022, the United States House of Representatives passed the Puerto Rico Status Act. It did not pass the United States Senate. [2] In August 2024, the Puerto Rico Supreme Court dismissed the July 2024 petition by the Puerto Rican Independence Party (PIP) asking the State Election Commission (CEE) to halt the status referendum. [3] [4]
The Puerto Rican Independence Party (Spanish: Partido Independentista Puertorriqueño, PIP) is a social-democratic [2] [3] political party in Puerto Rico that campaigns for the independence of Puerto Rico from the United States. [5] Those who follow the PIP ideology are usually called independentistas, pipiolos or pro-independence activists. [6]
In 1932, the pro-independence Liberal Party of Puerto Rico was founded by Antonio R. Barceló. The Liberal Party's political agenda was the same as that of the original Union Party, urging independence for Puerto Rico. [37] Among those who joined him in the "new" party were Felisa Rincón de Gautier and Ernesto Ramos Antonini.
Juan Dalmau, the Puerto Rican Independence Party's gubernatorial nominee, would be the first governor since the U.S. started allowing Puerto Rico to hold free gubernatorial elections in 1948 to ...
Puerto Rico will hold a referendum on Nov. 5 to determine whether the island should become a U.S. state, ... A third pro-independence party has little electoral support. Those wanting Puerto Rico ...
Puerto Rico, which has about 3.3 million people and high rates of poverty, became a U.S. territory in 1898. Activists have campaigned for greater self-determination including statehood for decades.
In the 2016 gubernatorial election, the independent candidate Alexandra Lúgaro managed to arrive in third with 11.13%, María De Lourdes Santiago of the Puerto Rican Independence Party (PIP) and Rafael Bernabe from the Working People's Party (PPT) failed to reach the 3% threshold required to remain registered with 2.13% and 0.34% respectively. [1]
This bill was supported by the Puerto Rico Independence Party, Citizens Victory Movement, and some members of the Popular Democratic Party, but was rejected by the pro-commonwealth status wing of the PDP and the New Progressive Party. On December 15, 2022, H.R. 8393 (the Puerto Rico Status Act) passed the House of Representatives 233–191.