Former San Juan mayor candidate for the Citizen Victory Movement, Manuel Natal Albelo, responded this afternoon to Alexandra Lúgaro’s announcement that he would resign from Puerto Rico’s electoral politics.
Natal Albelo assured that Lúgaro is the “bravest” person he knows, and that “courage, combined with a deep love for the country, led him to completely change Puerto Rican politics in less than 6 years.”
The former representative also assured that Lúgaro changed “old politics” since his independent candidacy for the Interior and “inspired a new generation to take an active part in politics, especially electoral politics”.
Natal Albelo, who is also the former candidate’s partner, stressed that during her years in politics she was subjected to “ the strictest scrutiny and sometimes the most vicious and discriminatory attacks that any politician in modern history has received from us. Country. “.
This decision was announced by Lúgaro in an open letter via social networks, in which he assured that his intention was never to be political or to pursue candidacy, but that he did it out of disagreement with the reality of the island.
Natal Albelo for her part thanked Lúgaro for “not taking off, for making the path less steep for those of us who found out”.
Finally, he assured that history would do justice to the former candidate who has not received it in the present.