PIP legislative candidates focused on facing Fiscal Oversight Board

PIP candidates by accumulation to the House and Senate, Denis Márquez (L) and Juan Dalmau (R), respectively, are campaigning this weekend in the island’s western region to celebrate the party’s 70th anniversary.

Denis Márquez and Juan Dalmau, Puerto Rican Independence Party (PIP) candidates for the House and Senate, respectively, reiterated Sunday they will focus their legislative audit on measures implemented by the Fiscal Oversight Board (FOB).

“Upon the agenda of layoffs, service cuts, salary reduction for young adults under 25 yeas, sales of agricultural and environmentally protected terrains, privatization of pubic corporations of aqueducts and electric energy -among other actions the Board may take to favor vulture bondholders against Puerto Ricans’ well-being-, the PIP’s presence in legislature is more important than ever,” affirmed the candidates in written declarations.

They stated that their party’s legislators’ historical action stands out, “which proves our disposition to fight dignifiedly and intensely for the diverse sectors threatened by the Board.”

Dalmau emphasized that “other parties’ candidates compete for being the Board’s ‘employee of the month.’ We PIP legislators aspire to serve as instruments to protect the country in a determinant moment in our history.”

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Márquez said his presence in the House of Representatives is determinant in this juncture, because “the PIP’s absence in the House during past administrations has been notable, because that branch initiates the consideration of the country’s budget. Now the PIP’s presence in the House is more important, to contribute in the budget’s design and study process, and to denounce and combat any cut that affects essential services.”

Both candidates coincided the resistance to the FOB aims to launch a process that confronts the U.S. government regarding Puerto Rico’s colonial status.

Their declarations were offered during a regional caravan in the western area, as part of the PIP’s activities to celebrate its 70th anniversary, which ended in Mayagüez.

The caravans will continue in other regions throughout October, facing the general elections on Nov. 8.

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