Country Alliance | |
Leader: | Juan Dalmau |
Country: | Puerto RicoUnited States |
Native Name: | Alianza de País |
Leader3 Title: | Candidate for resident commissioner |
Leader3 Name: | Ana Irma Rivera Lassén |
Leader4 Title: | Candidate for governor |
Leader5 Name: | Manuel Natal Albelo |
Leader5 Title: | Candidate for San Juan mayor |
Leader4 Name: | Juan Dalmau |
Position: | Centre-left to left-wing |
Legalised: | 2024 |
Colors: | Gold Black |
Merger: | Partido Independentista Puertorriqueño and Movimiento Victoria Ciudadana |
Seats1 Title: | Seats in the Senate |
Seats2 Title: | Seats in the House of Representatives |
Seats3 Title: | Municipalities |
Seats4 Title: | Seats in the U.S. House |
Country Alliance (es|'''Alianza de País''') is an electoral alliance in Puerto Rico for the 2024 Puerto Rican general election composed by two progressive, anti-colonial parties of Puerto Rico.
In the 2016 gubernatorial election, the independent candidate Alexandra Lúgaro managed to arrive in third with 11.13%, María De Lourdes Santiago of the Puerto Rican Independence Party (PIP) and Rafael Bernabe from the Working People's Party (PPT) failed to reach the 3% threshold required to remain registered with 2.13% and 0.34% respectively.[1] It was the first time since 1964 that one of the two main parties got less than 40%, when the pro-statehood PNP was still known as Partido Estadista Republicano and the first time since 1968 a third-party candidate got more than 10% of the vote.[2]
In the 2020 gubernatorial election, Alexandra Lúgaro, this time for the newly-formed Movimiento Victoria Ciudadana (MVC), reached 13.95% and PIP-candidate Juan Dalmau reached 13.58%, combined they got just 4.2% less than Carlos Delgado Altieri of the PPD and 5.7% less than Pedro Pierluisi of the PNP.[3]
The electoral law of Puerto Rico bans electoral fusion thus PIP runs Roberto Velázquez as Resident Commissioner candidate and MVC runs Javier Córdova Iturregui as gubernatorial candidate who function as paper candidates.[4]
Party | Leader | Ideology | Position | Senators | Representatives | ||
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Citizens' Victory Movement (MVC) | Ana Irma Rivera Lassén | Progressivism Anti-colonialism Anti-neoliberalism | Left-wing | ||||
Puerto Rican Independence Party (PIP) | Rubén Berríos Martínez | Social democracy Puerto Rican independence | Centre-left |