Governor’s candidate breaks down Puerto Rico’s annexation party

The attacks by Gonzalez, who is finishing his second four-year term as a congressional seat in Washington, angered the president, who described his message as unfair and negative.

Besides Pierluisi’s defense of his administration, the head of the Popular Democratic Party, Rep. Jesús Manuel Ortiz, indicated that González was an accomplice of this government.

“His letter confirms the validity of the complaints we made, that the reconstruction projects have stalled, that the LUMA deal was a disaster, and that Puerto Ricans today are no better off than they were seven years ago,” the DPP president stressed. Majority in the Legislative Council.

Meanwhile, Pierluisi expressed his discontent with his co-religionist, regarding his criticism as an attack on the PNP, at its weakest moment since winning the governorship for the first time in 1968, when the alternation occurred with the PDP, defending the Free Colonial Party. State, the Association (ELA) imposed by Washington began in 1952.

“I have always defended and will continue to defend the management of PNP administrations because, as we have seen in our history, when the PNP is in government, Puerto Rico advances; I know this is a refrain, but it is true,” said Pierluisi in Naranjito (North Central).

The president expressed that “my personal ambition has never stood in my way, (because) when the moment of truth comes, I always stand up for my team, which is the Philippine National Police team.”

Pierluisi believes that Gonzalez’s message, which was broadcast on television last Wednesday to make himself “available” for the governor’s office, “undermines the achievements of the PNP administration during the two years and nine months that I spent in the governor’s office.”

It’s too easy to criticize from the stands, he insisted when opening a center under the Department of Comprehensive Child Care and Development, where he speaks with “data to back up what I’m saying.”

Pierluisi stressed that he will prevail in the internal competition because words, words are easy, but “this kind of attack is unfair not only to me, it is unfair to everyone around me, because this is a team and it is the PNP team.”

It rejected, as the delegate in Washington claimed, that it was responsible for bringing billions of dollars in federal funds to the island after the devastation caused to this Caribbean island by Hurricanes Irma and Maria, in September 2017; And the earthquake that struck the south in January 2020.

Pierluisi, who held the same seat that Gonzalez now holds for two terms, confirmed that his administration has $2,900 million in road construction projects.

Internal elections are scheduled for June 2024, and the fight for them is expected to intensify in the remaining months within the Philippine National Party, which intends to maintain control of the government to promote full annexation by the United States, which experts see as a low possibility.

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