Jorge "Jorgito" Pérez Heredia is a Puerto Rican politician and current mayor of the municipality of Utuado,

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. He is affiliated with the New Progressive Party (NPP) and is a former supervisor of the

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(PREPA).

Political career

Pérez Heredia was a candidate for the New Progressive Party's nomination for District 22 Representative in their 2003 primaries. He was also a candidate for the party's nomination for mayor of Utuado against incumbent Alan González Cancel in their 2008 primaries, that Pérez Heredia lost by a wide margin. After González Cancel stepped down from a fourth consecutive term, Jorge Pérez Heredia won the NPP's nomination for mayor of Utuado in their 2012 primaries. He ran against Ernesto Irizarry Salvá (

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) in the general elections that same year, which resulted in the latter as the winner, marking the first time the New Progressive Party had lost a mayoral election in Utuado in 25 years. Pérez Heredia ran once again in the 2020 general elections against the two-term incumbent Irizarry Salvá for the office of mayor of Utuado, ultimately winning the ballot with 49.2% of the votes. He is the first mayor in the history of Utuado to win without a 50% of the total votes. He was sworn in as mayor of Utuado on January 16, 2021.Jorge Pérez Heredia toma posesión en actividad protocolar (audio y galería)
/ref> Pérez Heredia was re-elected for a second term as mayor of Utuado in the

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