After three governors in five days, Wanda Vázquez takes power in Puerto Rico | Chronic

Wanda VázquezThe State Secretary for Justice promised Wednesday to be the new governor of Puerto Rico, in a new attempt to get on the right track on the island after the institutional crisis that has forced in only five days a president to resign and another to leave his post to respect himself. to a court decision.

Vázquez arrives at Pedro Pierluisi, who had to leave power after a five-day internship that began last Friday when the resignation of Ricardo Rossellóweakened by a popular reaction to protest the flight of private conversations he had with his collaborators.

These dialogues, hundreds of which were published by the press, were cluttered with badist, offensive or insulting comments from political opponents, members of the LGBT community and internationally renowned artists.

As a repudiation of these insults, the streets of San Juan were filled during the days of protesters who demanded the resignation of Roselló, who presented her forced by the circumstances and after opposing a resistance.

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Before resigning, Roselló had proposed Pierluisi as secretary of state, which left him in first place in the succession.

Pierluisi swore on Friday as the new governor, but without the Senate 's endorsement, which opened a debate between constitutionalists and experts on the laws relating to the legacy that was settled by way of a new law. a lawsuit annulling the act of badumption of responsibility.

Today, the Puerto Rican Supreme Court declared unconstitutional the legal scaffolding on which Pierluisi's oath rested and ordered him to leave office, thus opening the way to the power of Vázquez, to whom the law reserved the second. place in the line of succession for his position as Secretary of Justice.

The Supreme Court's decision to cancel Pierluisi's inauguration was unanimously adopted by the nine judges of the court.

The supreme judge Maite Oronoz was sworn in to Vázquez, who then signed the documents certifying him as the new president, without making contact with the press.

The decision of the Supreme Court was adopted in a case opened by the Senate, according to which the amendment of Law 7 adopted in 1952, on which the oath of Pierluisi was based, was contrary to the letter of the Constitution.