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2020 Puerto Rico Senate Election
The 2020 Puerto Rico Senate election was held on November 3, 2020, to elect the members of the 27th Senate of Puerto Rico, concurrently with the election of the Governor of Puerto Rico, Governor, the Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico, Resident Commissioner, the House of Representatives of Puerto Rico, House of Representatives, and the Mayors in Puerto Rico, mayors of the Municipalities of Puerto Rico, 78 municipalities. The winners will be elected to a four-year term from January 2, 2021, to January 2, 2025. The New Progressive Party (Puerto Rico), New Progressive Party lost their two-thirds super-majority, but the Popular Democratic Party (Puerto Rico), Popular Democratic Party failed to win the 14 seats needed for a majority. The Puerto Rican Independence Party and Independent senator Vargas Vidot retained their seats, while the Movimiento Victoria Ciudadana, Citizen's Victory Movement and Proyecto Dignidad, Project Dignity gained 2 and 1 seats respectively. José Luis Dalm ...
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Senate Of Puerto Rico
The Senate of Puerto Rico ( es, Senado de Puerto Rico) is the upper house of the Legislative Assembly of Puerto Rico, the territorial legislature of Puerto Rico. The Senate, together with the House of Representatives of Puerto Rico, control the legislative branch of the government of Puerto Rico. The structure and responsibilities of the Senate are defined in Article III of the Constitution of Puerto Rico which vests all legislative power in the Legislative Assembly. Every bill must be passed by both, the Senate and the House, and signed by the Governor of Puerto Rico in order to become law. The Senate has exclusive power to try and to decide impeachments. The constitution also establishes that all secretaries appointed by the governor to the different executive departments, as well as all judges and the Comptroller, require the advice and consent of the Senate. Justices of the Supreme Court can not assume office until after confirmation by the Senate. The Senate has 27 mem ...
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Popular Democratic Party (Puerto Rico)
The Popular Democratic Party ( es, Partido Popular Democrático, PPD) is a political party in Puerto Rico that advocates to continue as a Commonwealth of the United States with self-governance. The party was founded in 1938 by dissidents from the Puerto Rican Liberal Party and the Unionist Party and originally promoted policies on the center-left.''Government / Brief history of elections in Puerto Rico.''
Encyclopedia Puerto Rico. Fundación Puertorriqueña de las Humanidades. Retrieved 29 February 2012.
In recent years, however, its leaders have described the party as . As one of the long-standing parties on the island, the PPD has played a sig ...
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Aníbal José Torres
Aníbal José "Jossie" Torres is a Puerto Rican politician and lawyer affiliated with the Popular Democratic Party (PPD). Torres has served in several positions of leadership within his party. He served as Secretary of the party during the 2000s, before being appointed as Puerto Rico Chief of Staff by elected Governor Aníbal Acevedo Vilá in 2005. After serving four years, he returned to his position as Secretary of the PPD, before deciding to run for the Senate of Puerto Rico at the 2012 general elections. Biography Aníbal José Torres was born in Orocovis, Puerto Rico. He ran for mayor of Orocovis at the 2000 general elections. However, he lost to the candidate of the PNP, Jesús Colón Berlingeri, by less than 340 votes. Has a Juris Doctor degree from the Eugenio María de Hostos School of Law in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, and a B.A. in political science from the Interamerican University of Puerto Rico. After that, Torres served as Secretary of the Popular Democratic Party ...
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Keren Riquelme
Keren L. Riquelme Cabrera is a Puerto Rican politician serving as a member at-large of the Senate of Puerto Rico The Senate of Puerto Rico ( es, Senado de Puerto Rico) is the upper house of the Legislative Assembly of Puerto Rico, the territorial legislature of Puerto Rico. The Senate, together with the House of Representatives of Puerto Rico, control t .... Life A member of the New Progressive Party, Riquelme was elected in 2020, defeating Aníbal José Torres. Before been a senator she was a professor in the University of Puerto Rico at Aguadilla. In 2022, she presented a plan to stop the exodus of medical doctors from the island. Riquelme is the daughter of pastor and science teacher Carmen G. Cabrera. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Riquelme, Keren Living people Year of birth missing (living people) New Progressive Party members of the Senate of Puerto Rico People from Camuy, Puerto Rico 21st-century Puerto Rican women politicians ...
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Gregorio Matías
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Rafael Bernabe Riefkohl
Rafael Bernabe Riefkohl (born 1959) is a Puerto Rican historian, sociologist, professor and politician. He is currently an elected member of the Puerto Rico Senate representing the Citizen’s Victory Movement. He was the candidate for governor for the Working People's Party of Puerto Rico in 2012 and 2016. He has socialist beliefs and ideals, and is heavily critical of the New Progressive Party and Popular Democratic Party. Personal life Bernabe was born in 1959, in the municipality of Santurce, Puerto Rico. He grew up in Río Piedras Rio or Río is the Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, and Maltese word for "river". When spoken on its own, the word often means Rio de Janeiro, a major city in Brazil. Rio or Río may also refer to: Geography Brazil * Rio de Janeiro * Rio do Sul, a .... References 1959 births Living people Colegio San Ignacio de Loyola alumni Members of the Senate of Puerto Rico People from Santurce, Puerto Rico 21st-century Puerto Rican politicians ...
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Juan Zaragoza (accountant)
Juan C. Zaragoza Gómez is a certified public accountant and the former Secretary of Treasury of Puerto Rico. Juan Zaragoza Gomez has a B.B.A. in accounting from the University of Puerto Rico and a master's in Management from Indiana University Indiana University (IU) is a system of public universities in the U.S. state of Indiana. Campuses Indiana University has two core campuses, five regional campuses, and two regional centers under the administration of IUPUI. *Indiana Universit .... References 1959 births 21st-century American politicians Indiana University alumni Living people Members of the Senate of Puerto Rico Members of the 16th Cabinet of Puerto Rico People from Bayamón, Puerto Rico Secretaries of Treasury of Puerto Rico University of Puerto Rico alumni {{PuertoRico-politician-stub ...
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William Villafañe
William Ely Villafañe Ramos is a member at-large of the Puerto Rico's Senate. He is also a former Chief of Staff and Secretary of Government (2017-2018). Early life and education Villafañe Ramos was born in Arecibo, Puerto Rico on June 16, 1977. The son of Ada Irma Ramos Medina, a public school teacher and William Villafañe Andújar, a former baseball player, is the father of two sons. Villafañe Ramos is married to a scholar psychologist. Before becoming a lawyer, Villafañe Andújar studied at Bernardo González Colón Elementary School,  Francisco Ramos Junior High School and Luis Muñoz Rivera High School in Utuado, Puerto Rico.  An alumnus of the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez, in which he obtained a Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration,  majoring in Accounting, he later attended the Interamerican University of Puerto Rico School of Law, from which he obtained a Juris Doctor. Career In the political arena, in 1995 he served as Presiden ...
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Joanne Rodríguez Veve
Joanne Marie Rodríguez Veve (San Juan, Puerto Rico; born February 3, 1983) is a Puerto Rican lawyer and politician. She currently serves as at-large Senator at the 27th Senate of Puerto Rico (2021-2025), representing the Proyecto Dignidad party.She was elected during the 2020 Puerto Rico Senate election and is the first senator of the party. Education Rodríguez Veve earned a Bachelor's Degree in Political Science and a Juris Doctor from the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus. Then she completed a Master's Degree in Canon law from the Pontifical University of Salamanca in Spain, and has studied History of Puerto Rico at the Center for Advanced Studies on Puerto Rico and the Caribbean The Center for Advanced Studies on Puerto Rico and the Caribbean (Spanish: ''Centro de Estudios Avanzados de Puerto Rico y El Caribe'') is a private institute housed in the former San Ildefonso Conciliar Seminary of Puerto Rico, San Ildefonso Con ... Professional career She has ...
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New Progressive Party Of Puerto Rico
The New Progressive Party ( es, Partido Nuevo Progresista, PNP) is a political party in Puerto Rico that advocates statehood. The PNP is one of the two major parties in Puerto Rico with significant political strength and currently holds both the seat of the governor and of the resident commissioner. The party is primarily contrasted by two other political parties: the Popular Democratic Party (PPD), which advocates maintaining the current political status of Puerto Rico as that of an unincorporated territory of the United States with self-government, and the smaller Puerto Rican Independence Party (PIP), which advocates for the independence of Puerto Rico. In national/mainland politics, members are split, with some party members affiliating with the Republican Party and some with the Democratic Party, although the PNP tends to be seen as slightly more conservative than the PPD overall. The party traces its history back to 1967. In that year, the Partido Estadista Rep ...
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Popular Democratic Party Of Puerto Rico
The Popular Democratic Party ( es, Partido Popular Democrático, PPD) is a political party in Puerto Rico that advocates to continue as a Commonwealth of the United States with self-governance. The party was founded in 1938 by dissidents from the Puerto Rican Liberal Party and the Unionist Party and originally promoted policies on the center-left.''Government / Brief history of elections in Puerto Rico.''
Encyclopedia Puerto Rico. Fundación Puertorriqueña de las Humanidades. Retrieved 29 February 2012.
In recent years, however, its leaders have described the party as . As one of the long-standing parties on the island, the PPD has played a sig ...
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26th Senate Of Puerto Rico
The 26th Senate of Puerto Rico is the upper house of the 18th Legislative Assembly of Puerto Rico. Its counterpart in the lower house is the 30th House of Representatives of Puerto Rico. The body will meet from January 2, 2017 to January 1, 2021 while under the oversight of the fiscal control board established by PROMESA. But in contrast to its standard composition, the numbers of legislators in this senate increased to 30 after the New Progressive Party (PNP in Spanish) won more than two thirds of the original 27 seats in contention during the 2016 general election. This provision was automatically triggered by Article Three of the Constitution of Puerto Rico which mandates that in such a case the number of minority legislators should total 9. Leadership Members Non-officers Committees ! scope=col style="text-align: left" , Name ! scope=col style="text-align: left" , President ! scope=col style="text-align: left" , Vice President ! scope=col style="text-align: ...
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