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The senator of the Democratic People’s Party (PPD), José Luis Dalmau Santiago, Was elected today as the new president of the upper house.
Dalmau was elected with the 12 votes of the PPD delegation, as well as with the endorsement of the senator of the Dignity Project Joanne Rodríguez Veve, As well as the independent senator José Vargas Vidot.
Delegations from the Progressive New Party (PNP), the Citizen Victory Movement and the Puerto Rican Independentist Party (PIP) abstained.. There was no vote against.
“He is a leader who has grown up in the most difficult times in our recent history … the best person to assume the office of Senate President is undoubtedly Jose Luis Dalmau Santiago,” said Rubén Soto Rivera, senator for the Arecibo district, in the iron the nomination, motion that was seconded by the senator of the Peacock Gretchen Hau.
During his nomination, Soto Rivera also recognized the “Humility of character, nobility of spirit and extraordinary ability to work in a team” by Dalmau Santiago.
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In a previous interview with The New Day, Dalmau indicated that he will immediately focus on three areas: health – including COVID-19 -, education and economic development. “There are a lot of families who don’t have a way to make a living, so I think in the short term, we need to start working out these three points together from the executive,” Dalmau expressed.
For the past few weeks, he added, he has been tasked with analyzing the governing programs of all parties. “We have a diverse Senate, and we need to see where there are coincidences”, He stated.
Senator Javier Aponte Dalmau was also announced as the PPD spokesman during the ceremony. The alternate spokeswoman, meanwhile, fell to the figure of Gretchen Hau. For the PNP, these positions will be occupied by former Senate President Thomas Rivera Schatz; and Senator Carmelo Ríos, respectively.
The spokeswoman for the Puerto Rican Independentist Party (PIP) will be taken over by her senator, Maria de Lourdes Santiago. While the delegation of the Citizen Victory Movement (MVC), made up of Ana Irma Rivera Lassen and Rafael Bernabe, will assume the position of spokesperson and alternate spokesperson, respectively.
The event was attended by Governor Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia, as well as several leaders of the PPD, a community that won the largest number of seats in the upper house. Among them were former governor Aníbal Acevedo Vilá, the president of La Pava, Carlos Delgado Altieri, and the former president of the Senate, Eduardo Bhatia.
Meanwhile, the popular mayors of Caguas, Joncs, Villalba and Yabucoa also said present.
The works were inaugurated – according to the Political Code dictated by the secretary of the outgoing Senate, Manuel Torres Neus.