By The Star Staff
The Popular Democratic Party (PDP) candidate for the Arecibo District seat in the island Senate, Ramón Luis Hernández Espino, hailed the approval of the PDP government program at the party’s assembly in Mayagüez on Sunday.
“We are the first political party in Puerto Rico to present a complete, serious proposal designed to address various issues,” the candidate said.
“One of the proposals that we embrace with great commitment is to rescue public education, removing partisan politics from the Department of Education,” Hernández Espino said. “The country has seen how the administrations of the New Progressive Party (NPP) have used the Department of Education as an ATM for political operations. This moral corruption has to end. As governor, Jesús Manuel Ortiz will not tolerate political interference, neither from his party nor from any other, in the educational system.”
Also discussed Sunday by the PDP in Mayagüez was the cost of living, especially food, “a situation that is unsustainable,” the Senate candidate said.
“Our commitment is to fight the cabotage laws, in order to reduce the cost of energy and food,” Hernández Espino said. “The country knows that the NPP candidate [for governor] Jenniffer González is the lawyer and defender of LUMA Energy, and also supports the cabotage laws. The reason? These industries donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to her campaigns.”
Hernández Espino also noted that another of the proposals approved by the PDP was the responsible reduction of tax rates to simplify and reduce the cost of government.
“The work we did yesterday in Mayagüez contrasts with the parties that the NPP had in San Juan, precisely when in Washington the [fellow] Republicans of Jenniffer González and William Villafañe blocked the initiative of the transition from PAN to SNAP, resulting in harm to thousands of Puerto Ricans,” Hernández Espino said. “We will resolve that with Pablo José Hernández as our next resident commissioner of Puerto Rico in Washington.”
Another PDP Senate candidate, Ada Álvarez Conde, released a similar message Monday, in which she emphasized Ortiz’s vow to cancel the contract with embattle grid operator LUMA Energy, as well as the proposed “creation of an unprecedented program to provide 25,000 housekeepers to senior citizens and people with functional diversity.”
The candidates invited voters to access ppdpr.net/plan-fuerza-de-futuro, where the PDP platform document is available in its entirety.
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