Puerto Rico 司法(官) 長官 becomes 知事 after 法廷,裁判所 判決,裁定

Protesters march in San Juan, Puerto Rico in July 2018

抗議する人s march in San Juan, Puerto Rico in July 2018

Puerto Rico's 司法(官) 長官 Wanda Vazquez was sworn in as 知事 on Wednesday hours after the 最高裁判所 拒絶するd a 簡潔な/要約する (人命などを)奪う,主張する to the office by another 公式の/役人.

Vazquez said that she was assuming office "with the greatest 尊敬(する)・点 and 決意 to serve my people and to 押し進める Puerto Rico 今後," in a 公式発表 解放(する)d after her 断言するing-in.

Vazquez's 就任(式)/開始 was the 最新の 新たな展開 in the political saga 激しく揺するing the self-治める/統治するing 部隊d 明言する/公表するs 領土, and (機の)カム after its 最高の,を越す 法廷,裁判所 支配するd that last week's 断言するing-in of Pedro Pierluisi was 憲法違反の.

The 司法(官)s 全員一致で 設立する that since the 領土's 上院 never 確認するd Pierluisi, "the 仮定/引き受けること of the office of 知事 was 憲法違反の."

The political contretemps followed 大規模な street 抗議するs that 軍隊d the 辞職 of 知事 Ricardo Rossello, who left office on Friday after coming under 解雇する/砲火/射撃 over 汚職 スキャンダルs and 漏れるd electronic 雑談(する)s with associates.

の直前に leaving office, Rossello 効果的に made Pierluisi his 後継者 by 任命するing him 長官 of 明言する/公表する, the next to the 知事 in the line of succession.

Vazquez, next in line after Pierluisi, had 公然と 明言する/公表するd her disinterest in the 知事/長官の職, but was nonetheless 確認するd すぐに after the 法廷,裁判所 判決,裁定, in 同意/服従 with the 法律.

The swearing-in of Pedro Pierluisi, pictured in January 2013, was invalidated by the US territory's Supreme Court

The 断言するing-in of Pedro Pierluisi, pictured in January 2013, was 無効にするd by the US 領土's 最高裁判所

Pierluisi stepped 負かす/撃墜する calling for まとまり and for Puerto Ricans to discard their "political-同志/支持者, 観念的な or personal 協議事項s."

"When I assumed the position of 知事 last Friday, I did it based on the 表明する language of Puerto Rico's 憲法 and the 法律 in 軍隊 at that time," Pierluisi said in a 声明, 追加するing that he 行為/法令/行動するd under 法律s that "are 推定するd 憲法の, and therefore valid."

Rossello, Pierluisi and Vazquez are all members of Puerto Rico's New 進歩/革新的な Party (PNP), which 好意s 併合 of Puerto Rico as the 51st US 明言する/公表する.

Jenniffer Gonzalez, the congresswoman 代表するing Puerto Rico in Washington, said that the 上院 "did the 権利 thing by taking out the political and 同志/支持者 審議 so that the 最高裁判所 can make the 決定/判定勝ち(する) in 一致 with the 憲法."

Puerto Rico has been shaken by weeks of street 抗議するs 始める,決める off by the 漏れる of 889 pages of 切り開く/タクシー/不正アクセスd text messages in which Rossello and his inner circle made fun of women, gays, ハリケーン 犠牲者s, 新聞記者/雑誌記者s and 政治家,政治屋s.

The 漏れる touched a 深い 井戸/弁護士席 of public discontent that has brewed since the 破滅的な 2017 ハリケーン Maria, which left 3,000 dead and Puerto Rico in shambles.

A 負債 危機, 政府 汚職 スキャンダルs and a painfully slow 回復 from Maria have 追加するd to the island's political woes.

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