Puerto Rico’s upcoming elections are set to make history regardless of the outcome. Chronic power outages and a lack of affordable housing for years has fueled voter apathy toward the island’s mainstream New Progressive Party and the Popular Democratic Party. If Jennifer González of the pro-statehood New Progressive Party wins on Nov. 5, it will mark the first time in the island’s history the party wins three consecutive terms. If Juan Dalmau of Puerto Rico’s Independence Party and Citizen Victory Movement wins, it will be the first win for the independentist candidate outside of the two parties that have dominated the island’s politics for decades.
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