{"id":122382,"date":"2024-11-05T15:49:59","date_gmt":"2024-11-05T08:49:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=122382"},"modified":"2024-11-05T15:49:59","modified_gmt":"2024-11-05T08:49:59","slug":"puerto-rico-holds-general-election-that-promises-to-be-historic-npr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=122382","title":{"rendered":"Puerto Rico holds general election that promises to be historic : NPR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"storytext\">\n<div id=\"resg-s1-32340\" class=\"bucketwrap image large\">\n<div class=\"imagewrap has-source-dimensions\" data-crop-type=\"\" style=\"&#10; 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Victory Movement mayoral candidate Manuel Natal, during a caravan in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Friday, Nov. 1, 2024.<br \/>\n                <b class=\"credit\" aria-label=\"Image credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                    Alejandro Granadillo\/AP<\/p>\n<p>                <\/b><br \/>\n                <b class=\"hide-caption\"><b>hide caption<\/b><\/b>\n            <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>            <b class=\"toggle-caption\"><b>toggle caption<\/b><\/b>\n    <\/div>\n<p>    <span class=\"credit\" aria-label=\"Image credit\"><\/p>\n<p>        Alejandro Granadillo\/AP<\/p>\n<p>    <\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico \u2014 Puerto Rico is holding elections that will be historic regardless of which of the top two gubernatorial candidates wins.<\/p>\n<p><!-- END ID=\"RESG-S1-32338-100\" CLASS=\"BUCKETWRAP INTERNALLINK INSETTWOCOLUMN INSET2COL \" --><\/p>\n<p>If Jenniffer Gonz\u00e1lez of the pro-statehood New Progressive Party wins Tuesday&#8217;s election, it will mark the first time in the island&#8217;s history that the party secures three consecutive terms.<\/p>\n<p>If Juan Dalmau, who is running for Puerto Rico&#8217;s Independence Party and Citizen Victory Movement, wins, it will be the first win for a candidate not representing either of the two main parties that have dominated the island&#8217;s politics for decades.<\/p>\n<p>Trailing Gonz\u00e1lez and Dalmau in polls is Jes\u00fas Manuel Ortiz of the Popular Democratic Party, which supports the island&#8217;s territorial status. Also running is Javier Jim\u00e9nez of Project Dignity, a conservative party created in 2019.<\/p>\n<aside id=\"ad-backstage-wrap\" class=\"ad-wrap backstage\" aria-label=\"advertisement\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>For decades, the New Progressive Party and the Popular Democratic Party would receive at least 90% of all votes, but that began to change in 2016, with newer parties attracting more voters amid economic and political turmoil.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That has been a very big change,&#8221; said Jorge Schmidt Nieto, a political analyst and university professor.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"edTag\">Delayed results<\/h3>\n<p>Results are not expected late Tuesday, with analysts warning it might be a couple of days before that happens. During the 2020 elections, it took officials four days to release preliminary results.<\/p>\n<p>Puerto Rico&#8217;s State Elections Commission is still counting more than 220,000 early and absentee votes it received, with officials from various political parties noting the process is slow-going. The counting of those votes began more than two weeks later than usual.<\/p>\n<p>Jessika Padilla, the commission&#8217;s alternate president, said in a press conference that some 40% of those votes had been counted as of Monday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This validation process is one that we are not going to take lightly,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>More than 5,000 inmates out of some 7,400 total in Puerto Rico also have voted, although it&#8217;s unclear how many of those votes have been counted.<\/p>\n<p>The commission and other officials also are still receiving allegations about electoral crimes, including from people who said they received confirmations for early voting when they made no such request.<\/p>\n<aside id=\"ad-secondary-wrap\" class=\"ad-wrap secondary\" aria-label=\"advertisement\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Meanwhile, energy generators have been dispatched to more than two dozen polling stations to guarantee electricity given the chronic power outages that have plagued Puerto Rico in recent years.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"edTag\">A status question and a symbolic vote<\/h3>\n<p>On Tuesday, voters also will be asked for a seventh time about Puerto Rico&#8217;s political status. The nonbinding referendum offers three options: statehood, independence and independence with free association, under which issues like foreign affairs, U.S. citizenship and use of the U.S. dollar would be negotiated.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless of the outcome, a change in status requires approval from the U.S. Congress.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, Puerto Ricans on Tuesday can support Kamala Harris or Donald Trump in a symbolic vote if they wish. While Puerto Ricans are U.S. citizens, those on the island are not allowed to vote in U.S. presidential elections.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 2 million voters are eligible to participate in Tuesday&#8217;s election, although it remains to be seen how many people will do so. Voter apathy has dominated recent elections.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2024\/11\/05\/g-s1-32338\/puerto-rico-holds-general-election\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A supporter waves a Puerto Rican Independence Party flag while holding a campaign poster promoting the Citizens&#8217; Victory Movement mayoral candidate Manuel Natal, during a caravan in San Juan, Puerto &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=122382\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8629],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=122382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=122382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=122382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=122382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}