Proyecto Dignidad (, PD) is a Puerto Rican political party founded in 2019. In the 2020 general election it ran on a Christian democracy and

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platform.

History

Project Dignity was first announced on March 24, 2019. On January 22, 2020, the party was officially certified as the 5th political party running in the 2020 general election. Afterwards in May,

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; and Ada Norah Henriquez, attorney at law, were nominated for

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and

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respectively.

2020

On November 3, 2020, the party contested its first

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. For the campaign, the party did not run candidates for every office. They opted to run for the governorship and resident commissary, as well as 1 candidate at-large for both legislative chambers. They also ran candidates in some representative and senatorial districts. Similarly, they only had a candidate in the mayoral race for San Juan, although they had previously certified Edgardo Cruz Vélez as candidate for Guánica, who did not win the race as an independent candidate after a vote recount. While their candidates for Governor and Resident Commissioner came 5th and 4th respectively, they won 1 at-large seat in both the

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and Senate.

Ideology

Project Dignity intends to lead the process of defining the

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but does not endorse a specific territorial option. The party advocates for declaring pornography a public health issue and imposing restrictions on abortion permitted within the legal framework of

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. After Roe v. Wade was overturned in 2022 by the Supreme Court, the party presented a bill that would limit access to abortions to those pregnant for less than about six weeks. In the 2021 session representative Lissie Burgos of the party attempted to introduce a bill to ban the use of hormone therapy on minors but it was defeated in committee. Additionally the party also brought in House Bill 764 for review that would restrict athletes to participate in sports teams of their birth assigned gender. The parties candidate for mayor of San Juan in 2020,

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, ran on a self-described

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model, seeking to facilitate market activity while allowing for regulation in cases of negative external effects and to promote his policy agenda ''San Juan Somos su gente''.

Electoral history

Gubernatorial elections

Resident Commissioner elections

Legislative elections

Party leaders

, founder of PD, president of the party and candidate for governor in 2020. Ada Norah Henriquez, candidate for resident commissioner in 2020.

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 p ...

, Senator for PD since 2021. Lisie Janet Burgos Muñiz, representative for PD since 2021.

References

{{PR-Party Political parties in Puerto Rico Political parties established in 2019 2019 establishments in Puerto Rico