{"id":226370,"date":"2024-11-06T08:01:14","date_gmt":"2024-11-06T12:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/?p=226370"},"modified":"2024-11-06T11:02:16","modified_gmt":"2024-11-06T15:02:16","slug":"pro-statehood-candidate-to-be-new-governor-of-puerto-rico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2024\/11\/06\/pro-statehood-candidate-to-be-new-governor-of-puerto-rico\/","title":{"rendered":"Pro-statehood candidate to be new governor of Puerto Rico"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Jennifer-Gonzalez-Listin-Diario-1024x660.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-226411\" width=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Jennifer-Gonzalez-Listin-Diario-1024x660.png 1024w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Jennifer-Gonzalez-Listin-Diario-300x193.png 300w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Jennifer-Gonzalez-Listin-Diario-768x495.png 768w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Jennifer-Gonzalez-Listin-Diario.png 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Puerto Ricans voted in favor of pro-statehood candidate Jenniffer Gonzalez Colon of the currently ruling New Progressive Party in the 5 November 2024 poll. She is the Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico. She had assumed office on 3 January 2017 for a term that ends on 3 January 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The position of Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico is a non-voting member of the United States House of Representatives. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to her US House biography, Gonzalez-Colon is a &#8220;lifelong Republican and activist for Puerto Rican statehood.&#8221; She was previously the chairwoman of the Republican Party of Puerto Rico.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She will replace incumbent New Progressive Party Governor Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia. He had run for re-election to a second term in office, but lost the PNP primary to Gonzalez Colon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Puerto Rico is a major trading partner with the Dominican Republic and a major source of tourists and investment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/listindiario.com\/las-mundiales\/puerto-rico\/20241106\/preliminar-jenniffer-gonzalez-gana-gobernacion-puerto-rico_832570.html\">Listin Diario <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>6 November 2024<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Puerto Ricans voted in favor of pro-statehood candidate Jenniffer Gonzalez Colon of the currently ruling New Progressive Party in the 5 November 2024 poll. She is the Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico. She had assumed office on 3 January 2017 for a term that ends on 3 January 2025. The position of Resident Commissioner of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2024\/11\/06\/pro-statehood-candidate-to-be-new-governor-of-puerto-rico\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[330,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226370"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226370"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":226413,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226370\/revisions\/226413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}