Ricky Rosselló

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Ricky Rosselló

Ricardo Antonio "Ricky" Rosselló Nevares (born March 7, 1979 in San Juan , Puerto Rico ) is a Puerto Rican politician . He was governor of Puerto Rico from January 2, 2017 to August 2, 2019 .

Career

Ricky Rosselló is a son of the former governor of Puerto Rico Pedro Rosselló . He studied at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology . He later worked as a researcher at Duke University . His specialty is stem cell research. He eventually returned to Puerto Rico, where he embarked on a political career. He became a member of the Partido Nuevo Progresista (PNP) and at the US federal level of the Democratic Party . He advocates the admission of Puerto Rico as the 51st state in the United States. He sees this as the best prerequisites for an economic upswing.

Ricky Rosselló has been a possible candidate for the gubernatorial elections in 2016 since 2012. On September 19, 2015, he officially announced his candidacy. On June 5, 2016, he prevailed in his party's primaries against the previous representative of Puerto Rico in the US House of Representatives (Resident Commissioner) Pedro Pierluisi . In the election on November 8, 2016, he proposed the former Secretary of State of Puerto Rico, David Bernier. On January 2, 2017, he took office as the successor to Alejandro García Padilla . He had not run for office in 2016.

In July 2019, in the wake of the scandal known as Telegramgate , large-scale demonstrations took place against the Rosselló government after the NGO for investigative journalism Centro de Periodismo Investigativo published numerous private Telegram chat messages. a. by Rosselló around the turn of the year 2018/19 and in which he is said to have expressed himself sexist and homophobic about many Puerto Ricans and disrespectful to the victims of Hurricane Maria . There was also a corruption scandal in which the Puerto Rican education minister Julia Keleher was arrested by the FBI . Rosselló initially rejected a demanded resignation as governor, but announced that he would no longer run for the 2020 election and step down as head of the PNP. On July 24, he finally announced that he would also resign from his post as governor on August 2, 2019. This made Rosselló the first head of government in US territory to resign prematurely.

The search for a successor turned out to be difficult at first, as the post of lieutenant governor was vacant at the time and the next in the ranking, Justice Minister Wanda Vázquez , waived. As a result, Rosselló nominated the former representative of Puerto Rico in the US House of Representatives, Pedro Pierluisi , as Secretary of State and thus as the constitutional successor as governor. However, when Pierluisi was sworn in on August 2, it had not yet been confirmed by the Puerto Rican Senate - as required by law. Therefore, it is likely that the swearing will be legally challenged.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Large demonstrations against the governor in Puerto Rico. In: zeit.de . July 22, 2019, accessed July 23, 2019.
  2. ^ After mass protests: Puerto Rico's governor resigns. In: orf.at . July 25, 2019, accessed July 25, 2019.
  3. ↑ Governor Rosselló announces resignation. In: dw.com . July 25, 2019, accessed August 4, 2019.
  4. ↑ Next governor of Puerto Rico is "not interested" in the post. In: nzz.ch . July 28, 2019, accessed August 2, 2019.
  5. ↑ Puerto Rico: successor nominated for governor. In: orf.at . July 31, 2019, accessed August 2, 2019.
  6. ↑ Merrit Kennedy, Brakkton Booker: New Puerto Rico Governor Sworn In Amid Political Chaos. In: npr.org . August 3, 2019, accessed on August 3, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Rosselló, Ricky
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rosselló Nevares, Ricardo Antonio (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Puerto Rican politician
DATE OF BIRTH March 7, 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH San Juan , Puerto Rico