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However, Puerto Rico's governing New Progressive Party praised the island's vote for statehood, in which over half of the electorate cast a vote. The option for statehood achieved a majority of the vote with 620,782 votes, followed by free association with 313,259 votes, and independence with 125,171 votes.
In a non-binding plebiscite, they will choose among three options that would result in a new, non-colonial status for Puerto Rico: statehood, independence, or free association under international ...
The bottom line is that Puerto Ricans serve in the U.S. military, they deserve at least the option of statehood.” Puerto Ricans will hold a nonbinding referendum on Puerto Rico’s status Nov. 5 ...
The Puerto Rico statehood movement (Spanish: movimiento estadista de Puerto Rico) aims to make Puerto Rico a state of the United States.Puerto Rico is an unincorporated territorial possession of the United States acquired in 1898 following the Spanish–American War, making it "the oldest colony in the modern world".
A House committee approved the Puerto Rico Status Act on Wednesday, paving the way for the full House vote. The legislation lays out terms of a plebiscite as well as three potential self-governing ...
On December 11, 2012, Puerto Rico's legislature resolved to request that the President and the U.S. Congress act on the results, end its territorial status and begin the process of admitting Puerto Rico to the Union as a state. [50] On January 4, 2017, Puerto Rico's new representative to Congress pushed a bill that would ratify statehood by ...
Supporters of changing Puerto Rico’s territorial status are turning to the Senate to keep a compromise bill alive as rapidly shifting political dynamics threaten to bury the proposal for a ...
Puerto Rico has had five previous referendums on its status. [8] A vote in 1967 rejected statehood, [9] with the commonwealth status option receiving the most votes. The next three referendums produced no clear majorities, [4] with the commonwealth option receiving the most votes in 1993 and the none of the above option being the most popular option in 1998.