By The Star Staff
Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia insisted on Tuesday that there is an agenda on the part of electoral commissioners to discredit the State Elections Commission.
“They are looking for blame, passing blame to the right and to the left, to the same people who should have done the work. Because here the commission is nothing more than the commissioners and the parties,” the governor said in response to questions from the press. “Because our system works like this, it works based on the fact that each party has a framework within the commission and some commissioners have a staff that they have to recruit and they have political and electoral work to do. And what they have done is complain. Enough of all this complaining and let them get to work.”
“The electoral calendar was established in March 2023, more than a year and a half ago,” Pierluisi added. “We already know what the deadlines are for all the procedures. That is why what I am saying is that there are four or five days left, that is, the population, the voters, have until September 21.”
“... The electoral code was not amended here, so the electoral code must be complied with,” he said. “This is a society of law and order. … All those commissioners and all the parties knew what the rules of the game were and they had to act to register their voters.”
With five days remaining in the period for registering voters, including reactivating or realizing voter transactions, the SEC decided on Tuesday to further extend the hours of operation at all the Permanent Registration Boards and Temporary Registration Boards around the island.
The boards will be open to the public without interruption from 8 a.m. until 8 p.m.
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