Any attempt to address the electoral issue in Puerto Rico from a
socialist perspective must begin by pointing out the limits of the
electoral process in the island. It is important to recognize the broad
restrictions that the colonial status imposes on the elaboration of a
national policy. This limitation is stronger under the
federally-appointed Fiscal Control Board, which oversees the fiscal
policies of Puerto Rico’s government.
While acknowledging these limitations, we must also acknowledge that
electoral politics and the electoral process attract considerable
attention and that laws affecting the lives of the working-class
majority are debated and adopted by the insular legislature. In
addition, an important part of the colonial impositions (such as the
Fiscal Control Board itself and its austerity measures) are enabled by
the parties that have dominated island politics, and have not been
challenged in the only representative political space that the existing
colonial status allows. Undoubtedly, we cannot be indifferent to the
electoral process. Thus, it is a terrain of struggle in which the
socialists can intervene, if they deem it opportune, a space through
which a considerable part of the population could be reached. In what
follows, we explain whyDemocracia Socialista
<https://democraciasocialista.net/>chose to call for a vote
forMovimiento Victoria Ciudadana <http://mvcpr.org/>in the 2020 elections.
https://internationalviewpoint.org/spip.php?article6909
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