Former PIP, MVC members welcomed to a ‘changed’ PDP
- The San Juan Daily Star
- Jul 14
- 2 min read
By The Star Staff
Popular Democratic Party (PDP) President Pablo José Hernández Rivera and Secretary General Manuel Calderón Cerame welcomed Ada Ramona Miranda Alvarado and Eric Armando Rossner Marrero to party headquarters in Puerta de Tierra over the weekend.
The two are former members of the Puerto Rican Independence Party (PIP) and the Citizens’ Victory Movement (MVC), respectively, and they announced their official entry into the PDP as part of the party’s refoundation process.
During the meeting, Hernández Rivera emphasized that “the refoundation is about adding new people to the PDP.”
“People recognize that there is a change in the Popular Party, that the Alliance has failed, and that we are the only ones who can defeat the NPP [New Progressive Party],” the PDP president and island resident commissioner said. “We have no doubt that we will achieve this in 2028 through a winning alliance like the one we created in the ‘Everyone to Washington’ campaign, which received the most votes in Puerto Rico.”
Miranda Alvarado, a former PIP municipal assembly member in Salinas, coffee grower and university professor, stated that her decision reflects the openness and inclusion she has found within the PDP and its refoundation, “and that is important to me.”
Rossner Marrero, who previously ran for the District 11 seat in the House of Representatives under the MVC banner, said his decision was the result of a thorough analysis of the island’s political situation and discussions with PDP Sen. Ada Álvarez Conde.
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