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The Republican Party of Puerto Rico's ideology supports statehood for Puerto Rico. Congresswoman Jenniffer González-Colón , resident commissioner of Puerto Rico , is the current local party chairperson.
This article lists political parties in Puerto Rico.. Puerto Rico has a 'first past the post' electoral system, in which a voter can vote by party, by candidate or both.To qualify as an official political party (and thus be able to appear on the printed state electoral ballot), a party must meet the criteria set forth by the Puerto Rico Electoral Law.
The Popular Democratic Party (PPD in Spanish) which holds about 34% of the popular vote while advocating for maintaining the current political status of Puerto Rico as that of a Commonwealth, [a] [b] Political Party Strength in Puerto Rico 2020. The rest of the strength is held by three minority parties [2]
All members of the Puerto Rico Republican Party’s executive board also belong to the pro-statehood New Progressive Party on the island. Trump received their full support during the convention ...
The chair of Puerto Rico’s Republican Party also said he would not support the former president without an apology over a comedian's insults at a Trump rally.
Puerto Ricans do, however, play an indirect role in electing the President of the United States, since both the Republican Party and the Democratic Party hold primaries in Puerto Rico, giving Puerto Ricans a voice selecting each party's presidential nominee.
Partido Republicano Puertorriqueño [1] [2] (English: Puerto Rican Republican Party) was a political party founded in Puerto Rico on July 4, 1899. [3] The party dissolved in 1924 when it split into two factions, both factions forming alliances with other local parties. [4] It was led by Dr. José Celso Barbosa.
The political parties in Puerto Rico campaigned for legal reform of Puerto Rico, but were largely unsuccessful until 1946, when Jesús T. Piñero was appointed governor, the first Puerto Rican native to be so. A 1947 U.S. Congress act subsequently gave the Puerto Ricans the right to elect their own governor by popular vote.