“With the imposition of the Fiscal Oversight Board, there have been many handicaps that we have gone through as a people,” the governor said when she appeared before the Legislative Assembly the day before for her first message on the situation of the country. She also recalled that earlier this month she achieved a balanced budget in compliance with the Certified Fiscal Plan.

The agency, which determines the control of public finances since 2016, when the US government approved Promesa, acronym in English for the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management and Economic Stability Act, was supposed to end in six years, but it has not been so because the certified budgets have not been complied with.

González revealed that leaving the JSF, as well as finalizing the contract with the privatizing consortium LUMA Energy are the priorities of her administration, as established in her first State of the State address, which she initially said she would not give apparently because of her confrontation with Senate President Thomas Rivera Schatz, her co-religionist.

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