Elizabeth Torres Rodríguez, partner of Alexandra Lugaro Aponte’s ex-husband, announced today, Sunday, her candidacy for the delegation seeking statehood in the United States Congress.
In a video posted on his social media, Torres Rodriguez expressed that “the fight for justice always tells me.”
IMPORTANT AD!
Of all the opportunities that have been presented to me, CAP compares to this one. Today I am embarking on a new great mission, this time from Congress. May God help me in this way. #DelegadaAlCongreso #State#JusticiaParaTodos pic.twitter.com/Nn5rdBIJFm
– Elizabeth Torres (@LaPremisaEli) February 28, 2021
Torres Rodriguez’s partner, Edwin Dominguez, was the person who received a pardon by former governor Wanda Vazquez Garced after being convicted of violating protection orders that had been imposed in favor of the twice-aspiring governor.
The special election to choose the intriguing proestadidad is scheduled for May 16, according to the Law 167-2020. The 16 applicants will have to submit 3,000 endorsements to their applications on or before March 15th.
We recommend:
The enabling law provided that all candidates must be fluent in both Spanish and English and “undertake under oath to defend the mandate of the People expressed on November 3 to demand that Puerto Rico be admitted as a State of the States.” United “as well as to” work actively full time during the term of office to achieve this end “.
Law 167 does not define how much money the six people who are elected in the special process deserve, beyond specifying that their expenses will be covered by the office of Federal Affairs Administration (Prfaa) in Washington DC.
Other candidates for the two intriguing positions in the federal upper house are the former state senators Miriam Ramírez de Ferrer i Melinda Romero Donnelly; Zoraida Buxó Santiago, Former Vice President of the Governing Board of the University of Puerto Rico; Víctor Pérez Rendes; Roberto Jesús López Román; Aurelio Antonio Agelviz Rodríguez; i Dereck ‘s José Negrón Torres.
Similarly, the aspirants for the House of Representatives are the former mayor of Ponce Maria “Mayita” Meléndez i Zayira Jordà Comte, Exaspiring at the resident police station of the Citizen Victory Movement. The other seven statesmen who will seek one of these four seats, according to the list released by the State Election Commission, son A hard tackle from Raúl Eduardo to Roses Marrero, Jorge Iván Rodríguez Feliciano, Janet Riefkohl Alice, Roberto Luis Lefranc Fortuño, Elizabeth Torres Rodríguez, Adriel Jared Velez Torres i A hard tackle from Ricardo Andrés Marrero to Passapera.