"A Tremendous Jump for Progressive Forces": Puerto Rico Election Signals End of Two-Party Dominance
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We look at election results in Puerto Rico, where progressives have made historic inroads against the two traditional parties, the Popular Democratic Party and the New Progressive Party. There is no question that the old monopoly of the two political parties that have dominated Puerto Rican politics for decades is coming to an end, and that's a very good thing," says historian Rafael Bernabe, who was just elected to the Puerto Rico Senate as part of the Citizens' Victory Movement.