Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia maintains that his first 100 days in office will be “very active”

The Governor of Puerto Rico, Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia, said today that the first 100 days of his term will be active and advanced the signing of new executive orders.

“Count on these 100 days to be very active. This honeymoon call that any ruler is supposed to receive I will take full advantage of,” the chief executive said.

On Saturday, at the time of the oath, Pierluisi signed six executive orders, including a mandate to the designated Secretary of the Department of Health, Carlos Mellado, to design a strategy for the mass administration of COVID tests. -19, as well as one ordering the Justice and Public Security departments to establish collaboration agreements with federal agencies to attack corruption and another banning the location of their official photo in government offices.

Although today he was further away from the public eye, Pierluisi was attentive to the swearing in of Washington-based commissioner Jenniffer Gonzalez, and participated in a virtual broadcast, where among other things he also shared anecdotes from the years. who held the chair in the Federal Capital.

From his agenda, he said, that alongside his work team must ensure that the administration of the newly elected president of the United States, Joe Biden, “treats us equally.”. “We will make sure that the bureaucratic requirements and procedures that the states do not have are imposed on us when it comes to additional aid to fight the pandemic,” he said.

He argued that his goal is for the people at the end of the four-year period to “see” and “feel” the work and hence the importance of their program for those first 100 days. “Let it be seen the difference, that we all, then, have a new Puerto Rico with a solid infrastructure and take advantage of all this work in infrastructure to drive economic development” point out by adding that he will support the commissioner in her efforts to expand pharmaceutical activity on the island.

He added that he will travel to Washington on January 20 to attend the inauguration of the Biden administration, an opportunity he will take to visit the congressmen. His plan, he said, is to travel once a month to the Federal Capital. “On these trips my agenda will be Jenniffer’s agenda … I’m going to consult Jenniffer on my agenda so that then we are together where it is strategically appropriate for us to be together,” he exposed from the Throne Room.