Puerto Rican politicians analyze the impact of the midterm elections for the island

The United States House of Representatives is expected to be under the control of the Republican Party for the next two years, the party to which the resident commissioner belongs

The results of the mid-term elections in the United States have shown that American voters reject extreme positions, both on the conservative and liberal sides, and have opted to elect, for the most part, political leaders more aligned with the center of the political spectrum, agreed political leaders of the island.

The Republican sweep at the legislative level did not materialize, which for weeks had been predicted as a “red wave”, but it is expected that the Republican Party will have control, by a narrow margin, of the federal House of Representatives , a delegation to the which belongs to the resident commissioner and Washington DC, Jenniffer González .

“The important message here is that the Democratic Party was successful in getting its people to vote, because it was believed that the voters who were going to be motivated (to go to the polls in greater proportion) were the Republicans because of the inflation issue. and the economy,” said the president of the Democratic Party in Puerto Rico and former president of the Senate, Charlie Rodríguez . In view of this, the changes that are anticipated regarding the control of the federal Congress will require that any legislation in favor of the interests of Puerto Rico be worked on in consensus between the two parties, highlighted the president of the Republican Party in Puerto Rico , Ángel Cintrón …. (Excerpt from El Nuevo Dia)