Working People's Party of Puerto Rico

Working People's Party
Partido del Pueblo Trabajador
President Anneliesse Sánchez Zambrana
Spokesperson Pedro Muñiz García
Founded December 5, 2010 (2010-12-05)
Headquarters Ave. Comerío, DD16, Río Hondo, Bayamón, Puerto Rico.
Ideology Left-wing populism[1]
Democratic socialism[2]
Cultural liberalism
Anti-colonialism[3]
Political position Left-wing
Colours Purple
Website
www.pueblotrabajador.com

The Working People's Party (Spanish: Partido del Pueblo Trabajador or PPT) is a Puerto Rican political party. It was founded on December 5, 2010, in the city of San Juan, Puerto Rico, by a group of activists, students, teachers, professors, union workers, actors, and public and private employees.[4]

Certification

The party worked to get the 60,000 endorsements required by the new electoral law of the Commonwealth in order to enroll with the Puerto Rico State Commission on Elections (CEE). On June 1, 2012, the CEE certified the PPT as an official party after getting the required number of endorsements.[5]

2012 & 2016 elections

2012 campaign banners for PPT

The party's candidate for governor, Prof. Rafael Bernabe Riefkohl, obtained more than 17,000 votes in the November 6, 2012 election, turning the party into the fourth most-voted political force in that electoral event.[6] Their campaign slogan was: "Para romper el cerco electoral, abre paso, vota PPT", which roughly translates as "To break the electoral barrier, take a step, vote PPT".

In 2016, Rafael Bernabe was once again the PPT candidate for governor. Mariana Nogales was the candidate for Resident Commissioner. Bernabe received 5,373 votes for governor (0.34% of the vote), finishing in 6th place. Nogales received 18,871 votes for resident commisioner (1.29% of the vote) and finished 4th.[7]

References

  1. ↑ Fortuño Bernier, Francisco J. (3 September 2016). "Fighting Puerto Rico's Federal Coup". Jacobin. Retrieved 19 November 2016.
  2. ↑ Fred M. Shelley (26 May 2015). "Puerto Rico: Commonwealth". Governments around the World: From Democracies to Theocracies: From Democracies to Theocracies. ABC-CLIO. p. 360. ISBN 978-1-4408-3813-2. Retrieved 19 November 2016.
  3. ↑ "The Working People's Party of Puerto Rico (PPT) Speaks to Young Voters at UPRM". Her Campus at University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez. 15 September 2016. Retrieved 19 November 2016.
  4. ↑ "Nace un partido del pueblo trabajador en San Juan, PR". Red Betances (in Spanish). Puerto Rico. December 5, 2010. Retrieved June 17, 2012.
  5. ↑ "CEE certifica al Partido del Pueblo Trabajador". El Nuevo Dia (in Spanish). Puerto Rico: GFR Media. June 1, 2012. Retrieved June 17, 2012.
  6. ↑ http://64.185.222.182/REYDI_Escrutinio12/index.html#es/default/GOBERNADOR_ISLA.xml
  7. ↑ http://www.nuevaisla.com/elecciones2016.html
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