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Country Alliance () is an
electoral alliance An electoral alliance (also known as a bipartisan electoral agreement, electoral pact, electoral agreement, electoral coalition or electoral bloc) is an association of political parties or individuals that exists solely to stand in elections. E ...
in
Puerto Rico ; abbreviated PR), officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, is a Government of Puerto Rico, self-governing Caribbean Geography of Puerto Rico, archipelago and island organized as an Territories of the United States, unincorporated territo ...
for the 2024 Puerto Rican general election composed by two progressive, anti-colonial parties of Puerto Rico.


Background

In the 2016 gubernatorial election, the independent candidate Alexandra Lúgaro managed to arrive in third with 11.13%,
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of the
Puerto Rican Independence Party The Puerto Rican Independence Party (, PIP) is a social-democratic political party in Puerto Rico that campaigns for the independence of Puerto Rico from the United States. Those who follow the PIP ideology are usually called ''independentist ...
(PIP) and Rafael Bernabe from the Working People's Party (PPT) failed to reach the 3% threshold required to remain registered with 2.13% and 0.34% respectively. It was the first time since
1964 Events January * January 1 – The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland is dissolved. * January 5 – In the first meeting between leaders of the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches since the fifteenth century, Pope Paul VI and Patria ...
that one of the two main parties got less than 40%, when the pro-statehood PNP was still known as
Partido Estadista Republicano The Partido Estadista Republicano () was a political party in Puerto Rico that operated from 1956 to 1968. Its president was Miguel A. García Méndez. The party formed in 1952 after Partido Estadista Puertorriqueño became "Partido Estadista ...
and the first time since
1968 Events January–February * January 1968, January – The I'm Backing Britain, I'm Backing Britain campaign starts spontaneously. * January 5 – Prague Spring: Alexander Dubček is chosen as leader of the Communist Party of Cze ...
a third-party candidate got more than 10% of the vote. In the 2020 gubernatorial election, Alexandra Lúgaro, this time for the newly-formed
Movimiento Victoria Ciudadana (, generally abbreviated as MVC) is a Puerto Rican political party founded in 2019. It ran in the 2020 general elections on an anti-colonial platform, proposing a constitutional assembly to determine a final decision regarding the relationsh ...
(MVC), reached 13.95% and PIP-candidate
Juan Dalmau Juan Manuel Dalmau Ramírez (born July 23, 1973) is a Puerto Rican politician, attorney and a candidate for Governor of Puerto Rico for the Puerto Rican Independence Party.Carlos Delgado Altieri of the PPD and 5.7% less than
Pedro Pierluisi Pedro Rafael Pierluisi Urrutia (born April 26, 1959) is an American politician and lawyer who served as the Governor of Puerto Rico from 2021 to 2025, having previously been the de facto governor from August 2–7, 2019. A member of New P ...
of the PNP. The electoral law of Puerto Rico bans
electoral fusion Electoral fusion in the United States is an arrangement where two or more United States political parties on a ballot list the same candidate, allowing that candidate to receive votes on multiple party lines in the same election. Electoral fus ...
thus PIP runs Roberto Velázquez as Resident Commissioner candidate and MVC runs Javier Córdova Iturregui as gubernatorial candidate who function as
paper candidate In a representative democracy, a paper candidate (also known as a no-hope candidate) is a candidate who stands for a political party in an electoral division where the party in question enjoys only low levels of support. Although the candidate ...
s.


Composition


Election results


Governor Election Results


Resident Commissioner Election Results


San Juan Mayoral Election Results


References


External Links

* {{PR-Party Left-wing nationalist parties Left-wing political party alliances Political parties established in 2023 Political parties in Puerto Rico Political party alliances in the United States Puerto Rican nationalism Socialism in Puerto Rico