Puerto Rico Governor Ricardo Rosselló resigns after weeks of mass protests by NickPBrown
Puerto Rico Governor Ricardo Rossello speaks as he announces his resignation in San Juan, Puerto Rico, early July 25, 2019. La Forteleza de Puerto Rico/Handout via REUTERS
Rosselló said in a televised speech he would stay in his position until Aug. 2 when Puerto Rico Secretary of Justice Wanda Vazquez would take over as governor. “I feel that to continue in this position would make it difficult for the success that I have achieved to endure,” Rosselló said. Rosselló faced the threat of an impeachment process after an independent panel of lawyers commissioned by the president of the lower house to investigate the messages found four felonies and one misdemeanor may have been committed in the chats, one of the lawyers, Luis Rodríguez-Rivera, said in an email.
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