González, vice-president of the annexation party New Progressive Party (PNP), justified her actions with the catastrophic situation of the Pierluisi government, which continues to plunge into a catastrophe, with houses that, six years after the devastation of this Caribbean island of 3.2 million inhabitants by a hurricane still have awnings as roofs.
“We cannot live conformistly, we must think big… and that is what I propose to you: we must dare to dream and create change.” “This requires discipline, but also future vision and determination,” he said in one televised speech.
He assured that the government today enjoys great economic prosperity, “but this effect is not reflected in your pockets, which seem to be getting smaller every day.” Even if some say otherwise, that is the reality.”
At the same time, he expressed the real possibility that a large part of the funds provided by the United States would be lost.
González criticized the great disappointment that the privatization company LUMA Energy represents for the people, since at the moment “all we talk about is interruptions of operations and how much electricity will increase, (after) I received the funds to rebuild the electrical system and in six “We .” I haven’t seen anything for years.
The delegate to the Congress in Washington expressed that the leadership is required to recognize mistakes and correct them immediately, at a time when “Puerto Rico is facing a major health crisis in which the shortage of doctors and service providers has put our seniors in a situation where they…“wait months for the care they so desperately need.”
“Our education system is one of the systems most at risk of losing hundreds of millions of dollars in resources that should be going directly to classrooms,” he stressed.
For González, it is a reality that the challenges and obstacles that the government bureaucracy imposes on anyone who wants to invest or start a small business in Puerto Rico are increasing day by day; “We need an agile government focused on delivering better services.”
“Puerto Rico has the resources to transform each of the most impacted areas that so impact citizens every day. All that is missing is the leadership and determination to achieve this,” he said.
The announcement came two days after San Sebastián del Pepino Mayor (center), Javier Jiménez, announced that he would not run for office again after 20 years and that he was leaving the PNP to join the ultra-conservative Dignity Project He will likely be a candidate for governor.
Governor Pierluisi had expected to present his re-election candidacy next Sunday.
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