Legislature: 17th Legislative Assembly of Puerto Rico
Senate: 26th Senate of Puerto Rico
President of the Senate: Thomas Rivera Schatz
President pro tempore: Larry Seilhamer Rodríguez
Majority Leader: Carmelo Ríos Santiago
Majority Whip: Ángel Chayanne Martínez
Minority Leader: Eduardo Bhatia; Juan Dalmau; Vargas Vidot
Minority Whip: José Luis Dalmau
House of Representatives: 30th House of Representatives of Puerto Rico
Speaker: Johnny Méndez
Speaker pro tempore: José Torres Zamora
Majority Leader: Gabriel Rodríguez Aguiló
Majority Whip: Urayoán Hernández
Minority Leader: Tatito Hernández
Minority Whip: Ramón Luis Cruz
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General elections were held for the first time in Puerto Rico on 27 March 1898,[1] as part of the Spanish general elections. This followed the island being granted a Charter of Autonomy by the Spanish government, which allowed Puerto Rico to elect members to the Spanish parliament and established a bicameral legislature for the island,[2] with a fully-elected House of Representatives and a Council of Administration, whose members were a mix of elected delegates and appointees made by the Governor.[3] The elections were held under universal male suffrage with a voting age of 25.[4]
Four parties contested the elections; the Liberal Fusionist Party led by Luis Muñoz Rivera, the Orthodox Autonomist Party, the Unconditional Party and the Opportunistic Autonomous Group.[1]
^ abMariano Negrón-Portillo (1981). A Study of the Newspaper La Democracia, Puerto Rico, 1895-1914: A Historical Analysis. pp. 49–50.
^Desmond King, Robert C. Lieberman, Gretchen Ritter & Laurence Whitehead (2009). Democratization in America: A Comparative-Historical Analysis. JHU Press. p. 78. ISBN 9780801893254.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
^Richard Worth (2015). Puerto Rico: From Colony to Commonwealth. Enslow Publishing, LLC. p. 73. ISBN 9780766070042.
^Cite error: The named reference KRS was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
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