By The Star Staff
Discontent and controversies appear to be alive and well in Puerto Rico politics more than a month after the general election.
In one such example, outgoing Citizen Victory Movement (MVC by its initials in Spanish) Rep. Mariana Nogales Molinelli posted on her social networks this week a list of errors she says her party committed during the November elections.
She highlighted several main blunders. The first consisted of candidates failing to collect the necessary endorsements to be able to run, which resulted in a court of law disqualifying them.
The second was the alliance formed with the Puerto Rican Independence Party (PIP), in which MVC candidates agreed to support the PIP candidate for governor, Juan Dalmau RamÃrez. The PIP also nominated candidates to legislative district posts and one for resident commissioner, a situation that diluted votes, Nogales pointed out. Subsequently, the MVC lost its electoral franchise.
Popular Democratic Party Rep. Gretchen Hau Irizarry pointed out in a televised program that Nogales stated what many in her party had not dared to say.
Hau added that the legislator’s list of grievances comes only after she failed to emerge victorious in the elections.
New Progressive Party Sen. Carmelo RÃos Santiago called Nogales egocentric and pointed out the one-term lawmaker’s mistakes.
Nogales was one of the MVC candidates who had to run for the Legislature as a write-in candidate after the island Supreme Court ordered her to collect endorsements following her party’s internal primary process.
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