Pro-statehood Pedro Pierluisi sworn in as Puerto Rico governor following chaotic elections Nelson Oliveira
Pedro Pierluisi was sworn in as Puerto Rico’s new governor Saturday, vowing to lift the struggling U.S. territory out of bankruptcy and fight against corruption, poverty and the COVID-19 pandemic.
Speaking to a crowd of hundreds of guests at an outdoor ceremony in San Juan, the pro-statehood Democrat urged people to put their differences aside and unite against their biggest obstacles.
The 61-year-old, who previously served as a nonvoting representative for Puerto Rico in the U.S. Congress, rose to the island’s top government post with just one-third of the vote after a turbulent election period.