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The 2024 Puerto Rico Senate election was held on November 5, 2024, to elect the members of the 28th Senate of Puerto Rico, concurrently with the election of the Governor, the Resident Commissioner, the House of Representatives, and the mayors of the 78 municipalities. The winners were elected to four-year terms from January 2, 2025, to January ...
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 (PIP) and the Alliance, appeal to the Court of First Instance of San Juan to review the decision of the State Electoral Commission (CEE). [21] On December 18, 2024, the PPD announced that it would contest the results of the mail-in ballot before the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico. [22]
Puerto Rican reggaeton star Nicky Jam withdrew his support on Wednesday for Donald Trump in next week's election, the latest fallout after a comedian insulted Puerto Rico as a "floating island of ...
Puerto Rico Senate Party Leader Before After Change Popular Democratic: José Luis Dalmau: 12 New Progressive: Thomas Rivera Schatz: 10 Citizen's Victory Movement: Ana Irma Rivera Lassén (retiring) 2 Puerto Rican Independence: María de Lourdes Santiago: 1 Project Dignity: Joanne Rodríguez Veve: 1 Independent: Vargas Vidot: 1 Total: 27: 27
The Republican Party is projected to retain its majority in the House, become the majority in the Senate, and upon the inauguration of Donald Trump on January 20, 2025, are in line to attain an overall federal government trifecta for the first time since the 115th Congress in 2017, during which Trump was inaugurated for his first term.
Despite Puerto Rico's status as an unincorporated territory, which precludes its participation in U.S. presidential general elections and the ability to appoint electors to the U.S. Electoral College, Puerto Ricans are recognized as U.S. citizens and are permitted to engage in the U.S. presidential primaries. [1]
Proposed political status for Puerto Rico includes various ideas for the future of Puerto Rico, and there are differing points of view on whether Puerto Rico's political status as a territory of the United States should change. Puerto Rico is a Caribbean island that was a colony of the Spanish Empire for about four centuries until it was ceded ...