By The Star Staff
Juan Dalmau Ramírez, the former candidate for governor for the Puerto Rican Independence Party (PIP), announced on Monday that “the Alliance” between the PIP and the Citizen Victory Movement will continue and presented a reorganization plan for his party, in addition to questioning the initial actions of the administration of Gov. Jenniffer González Colón.
“The Alliance continues and we have to see this process as a process of hope,” Dalmau Ramírez said in a press conference. “In the last elections we achieved the unimaginable, not only a second position in the candidacy for governor, but also an increase in votes in different precincts.”
Prof. Carlos Gorrín Peralta, head of the multidisciplinary team that will advise on the reorganization, said: “We are going to expand and strengthen it in this new multisectoral group, to analyze what the government does and advance ideas for change in collaboration with the legislative representatives.”
Dalmau Ramírez described the government’s performance in its first days as “worrying, alarming and scandalous,” referring to Administrative Order 1 signed by Designated Natural and Environmental Resources Secretary Waldemar Quiles, and said that his party will monitor any action that eliminates environmental protections.
“The actions taken by the government of Jenniffer González through executive orders and actions by its agency heads, as well as by the president of the University of Puerto Rico, are worrying, alarming and scandalous,” the attorney said. “Those who boasted during the campaign of fighting authoritarian and dictatorial governments have precisely assumed an attitude of governing by decree, even acting against constitutional provisions and provisions of the law. The most forceful example is what has occurred with the Department of Natural and Environmental Resources. The idea that an agency head nullifies enabling laws, federal regulations and constitutional provisions in protection of what is the common good and what are the assets of the people of Puerto Rico is absolutely scandalous.”
“If the Legislative Assembly is going to assume the attitude of lowering its head and allowing the usurpation of its powers as a legislative power in this process,” Dalmau Ramírez continued, “the problem of the Legislative Assembly in terms of what corresponds to us as a collective as well as to the legislators of the Puerto Rican Independence Party, we are going to be supervising and carrying out the corresponding investigations.”
Regarding a possible merger between the PIP and other movements, Dalmau Ramírez said: “At this time, that is not on the table.”
“Each group maintained its own identity because it has different ideas, although we achieved mutual consensus that offers an option for change,” he said.
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