The attacks by González, who is completing his second four-year term in the congressional seat in Washington, have provoked outrage from the president, who called his message unfair and negative.
In addition to Pierluisi’s defense of his government, the leader of the People’s Democratic Party (PPD), MP Jesús Manuel Ortiz, noted that González was an accomplice of that government.
“His message confirms the complaints that we have made, that the reconstruction projects have been stopped, that the LUMA transaction was a disaster and that Puerto Ricans are no better off today than they were seven years ago,” the PPD president emphasized a majority in the legislative assembly.
Pierluisi, meanwhile, showed his indignation at his co-religionist and viewed his criticism as an attack on the PNP, in its weakest moment since he first won the governorship in 1968, when the change took place with the PPD, the defender of the colonialist Free Party State, started. Associate (ELA), imposed by Washington in 1952.
“I have always defended the leadership of PNP administrations and will continue to do so because as we have seen in our history, Puerto Rico advances when the PNP is in government; I know it’s a refrain, but it’s true,” said Pierluisi in Naranjito (North Central).
The President expressed that “my personal ambition has never stood in the way because when the moment of truth comes, I always defend my team, namely the PNP team.”
For Pierluisi, González’s message, which he broadcast on television last Wednesday to “make himself available” for governor, “undermines the achievements of the PNP government in the two years and nine months that I have been governor was.”
It is very easy to criticize from the stands, he emphasized at the inauguration of a center of the Administration for the Care and Comprehensive Development of Children, where he “speaks with data that supports what I say”.
Pierluisi assured that he will win in the internal competition because words, words are easy, but “this kind of attack is not only unfair to me, it is unfair to everyone around me because this is a team and it is the PNP -Team.” ” .
She denied, as the Washington delegate claimed, that she was responsible for bringing billions of dollars in federal funding to the island after Hurricanes Irma and María devastated the Caribbean island in September 2017; and the southern earthquake in January 2020.
Pierluisi, who has held the same seat as González for two terms, emphasized that he has road projects worth $2,900 million in his government.
Internal elections will take place in June 2024 and the fight is expected to intensify in the remaining months in the PNP, which wants to retain control of the government in order to promote full annexation to the United States, according to experts see little possibility.
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