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Directors back to the Statistics Institute

According to a ruling issued yesterday, the governor erred when he removed several directors of the PR Statistics Institute, because they have quasi-judicial and quasi-legislative powers

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"Like in any legal process, we will be evaluating the options. I will read the decision and then we will inform our course of action," said Rosselló.

Superior Court Judge Anthony Cuevas Ramos ordered the Governor of Puerto Rico, Ricardo Rosselló Nevares, to "cease and desist" from interfering with the operation of the Puerto Rico Statistics Institute and ordered the reinstatement of the four directors that Rosselló removed last year in order to give way to his own appointees.