New Progressive Party (Puerto Rico)

New Progressive Party

Partido Nuevo Progresista
New Progressive Party Partido Nuevo Progresista
President	Pedro Pierluisi
Secretary	Hiram Torres Montalvo
Founded	August 20, 1967
Split from	Republican Statehood Party
Headquarters	San Juan, Puerto Rico
Membership (2020)	297,998
Ideology	Centrism; Puerto Rican statehood; Factions:; Conservatism; Liberalism;
Political position	Centre to centre-right
Colors	Blue, white
Seats in the Senate	10 / 27
Seats in the House of Representatives	21 / 51
Municipalities	37 / 78
Seats in the U.S. House	1 / 1
Website
	www.partidonuevoprogresista.net
	Politics of Puerto Rico; Political parties; Elections;

The New Progressive Party (Spanish: Partido Nuevo Progresista, PNP) is a political party in Puerto Rico that advocates statehood.^[3]^[4] The PNP is one of the two major parties in Puerto Rico with significant political strength and currently holds both the seat of the governor and of the resident commissioner.

The party is primarily contrasted by two other political parties: the Popular Democratic Party (PPD), which advocates maintaining the current political status of Puerto Rico as that of an unincorporated territory of the United States with self-government, and the smaller Puerto Rican Independence Party (PIP), which advocates for the independence of Puerto Rico.^[a]^[b]

In national/mainland politics, members are split, with some party members affiliating with the Republican Party and some with the Democratic Party,^[10] although the PNP tends to be seen as slightly more conservative than the PPD overall.^[5]

The party traces its history back to 1967. In that year, the Partido Estadista Republicano instructed its members to not participate in a referendum on statehood held that year. Unhappy with the mandate, several dissidents left the Statehood Party and founded the PNP afterwards.^[10]

^ "Primarias del Partido Nuevo Progresista Gobernador Resultados Isla" [Primaries of the New Progressive Party Governor Island Results]. Puerto Rico State Commission on Elections (in Spanish). 2020-09-02. Archived from the original on 2020-09-21. Retrieved 2022-03-12.
^ ^a ^b "Is Puerto Rico Our Greece?".
^ ^a ^b Political parties of the Americas, 1980s to 1990s: Canada, Latin America, and the West Indies. Charles D. Ameringer. London, England: Greenwood Press, 1992. p. 530.
^ ^a ^b Blanco, Richard Manuel (Spring 1988). Party Identification in Puerto Rico (Thesis). Florida State University. Retrieved 22 September 2017.
^ ^a ^b Arrarás, Astrid; Power, Timothy J. (August–December 2007). "The social basis of separatism: Explaining support for the Puerto Rican Independence Movement". Revista de Estudos e Pesquisas sobre as Américas. 1 (1): 61–81.
^ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/10/03/who-are-trumps-political-allies-in-puerto-rico-explaining-the-islands-political-factions/
^ https://www.primerahora.com/noticias/gobierno-politica/notas/tildan-de-hipocrita-a-pierluisi/&ved=2ahUKEwj2rrLgjdOAAxVeSjABHZxXDq8QFnoECA4QAQ&usg=AOvVaw0oQU-f9ThCqmebJo8H_Zow/
^ "The next debt crisis in the United States may require a Puerto Rico bailout | Suffragio". 22 October 2013.
^ ^a ^b "Plataforma de Gobierno 2012" (in Spanish). Popular Democratic Party. May 2, 2012. Retrieved August 8, 2013.
^ ^a ^b "Historia del PNP" (in Spanish). WAPA-TV. March 15, 2012. Archived from the original on 2014-01-09. Retrieved August 8, 2013.

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[1] "Primarias del Partido Nuevo Progresista Gobernador Resultados Isla" [Primaries of the New Progressive Party Governor Island Results]. Puerto Rico State Commission on Elections (in Spanish). 2020-09-02. Archived from the original on 2020-09-21. Retrieved 2022-03-12.

[manhattaninstitute-2] "Is Puerto Rico Our Greece?".

[greenwood-3] Political parties of the Americas, 1980s to 1990s: Canada, Latin America, and the West Indies. Charles D. Ameringer. London, England: Greenwood Press, 1992. p. 530.

[auto-4] Blanco, Richard Manuel (Spring 1988). Party Identification in Puerto Rico (Thesis). Florida State University. Retrieved 22 September 2017.

[periodicos-5] Arrarás, Astrid; Power, Timothy J. (August–December 2007). "The social basis of separatism: Explaining support for the Puerto Rican Independence Movement". Revista de Estudos e Pesquisas sobre as Américas. 1 (1): 61–81.

[6] ttps://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/10/03/who-are-trumps-political-allies-in-puerto-rico-explaining-the-islands-political-factions/

[Primera_Hora-7] ttps://www.primerahora.com/noticias/gobierno-politica/notas/tildan-de-hipocrita-a-pierluisi/&ved=2ahUKEwj2rrLgjdOAAxVeSjABHZxXDq8QFnoECA4QAQ&usg=AOvVaw0oQU-f9ThCqmebJo8H_Zow/

[8] "The next debt crisis in the United States may require a Puerto Rico bailout | Suffragio". 22 October 2013.

[party-platform-2012-9] "Plataforma de Gobierno 2012" (in Spanish). Popular Democratic Party. May 2, 2012. Retrieved August 8, 2013.

[wapa-tv-history-pnp-12] "Historia del PNP" (in Spanish). WAPA-TV. March 15, 2012. Archived from the original on 2014-01-09. Retrieved August 8, 2013.

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