The government of Alejandro García Padilla was formed in the weeks following the 2012 Puerto Rico gubernatorial election and was sworn in initially in January 2013, with some confirmations coming in later. It featured a pro-Independence secretary, a non-partisan Secretary of Governance, as well as the continuation of the previous PNP administrations' Commissioner of Safety and Public Protection.
Party breakdown Party breakdown of 21 cabinet members, not including the governor, but including the Secretary of Governance, from January 2013 to September 2014:
Popular Democratic Party 18 Indendependence Party 1 Independents 2
The cabinet was composed of members of the PPD, a PIP member (in defiance to PIP leadership), and at its height, two concurrent independents or technical positions (or people whose membership in a party was not clearly ascertained from any available media). After the exit of Ingrid Vila Biaggi in September 2014, the PPD gained a seat in the Cabinet at the expense of the independent position she left for Víctor Suárez Meléndez:
Popular Democratic Party 19 Indendependence Party 1 Independents 1
Members of the Cabinet The Puerto Rican Cabinet is led by the Governor, along with, starting in 1986, the Secretary of Governance. The Cabinet is composed of all members of the Constitutional Council of Secretaries (), who are the heads of the executive departments, along with other Cabinet-level officers who report directly to the Governor of Puerto Rico or to the Secretary of Governance, but who are not heads nor members of an executive office. All the Cabinet-level officers are at the same bureaucratic level as of the Secretaries
Office Name Party Term Governor Governor of Puerto Rico Alejandro García Padilla PPD 2 January 2013 – 2 January 2017 Office of the Governor Secretariat of Governance Ingrid Vila Biaggi Ind. 2 January 2013 - 19 September 2014 Víctor Suárez Meléndez PPD 19 September 2014 – 9 December 2015 Grace Santana Balado PPD 9 December 2015 – 1 January 2017 Director of the Office of Management and Budget Carlos Rivas Quiñones PPD 15 October 2014 – 2 January 2017 Luis F. Cruz Batista PPD 2 January 2013 – 2 January 2014 President of the Puerto Rico Planning Board Luis García Pelatti PPD 2 January 2013 – 2 January 2017 President of the Environmental Quality Board Laura Vélez Vélez PPD 2 January 2013 – 1 September 2015Executive Director for Federal Affairs Administration Juan Eugenio Hernández Mayoral PPD 2 January 2013 – 2 January 2017 Council of Secretaries Secretary of State David Bernier Rivera PPD 2 January 2013- 30 October 2015 Víctor Suárez Meléndez PPD 1 November 2015 - 2 January 2017 Secretary of Justice Luis Sánchez Betances PPD 2 January 2013 – 31 December 2013 César R. Miranda Rodríguez PPD 13 January 2014 - 2 January 2017 Secretary of the Treasury Melba Acosta Febo PPD 2 January 2013 – 26 October 2014 Juan C. Zaragoza Gómez PPD 26 October 2014 - 2 January 2017 Secretary of Education Rafael Román Meléndez PPD 2 January 2013 - 2 January 2017 Secretary of Labor and Human Resources Vance E. Thomas Rider PIP 2 January 2013 - 2 January 2017 Secretary of Transportation and Public Works Miguel Torres Díaz PPD 2 January 2013 - 2 January 2017 Secretary of Economic Development and Commerce Alberto Bacó Bagué PPD 2 January 2013 - 2 January 2017Secretary of Health Francisco Joglar Pesquera PPD 2 January 2013 - 13 September 2013 Ana Ríus Armendáriz PPD 16 September 2013 - 2 January 2017 Secretary of Agriculture Myrna Comas Pagán PPD 2 January 2013 - 2 January 2017 Secretary of Consumer Affairs Nery Adamés Soto PPD 2 January 2013 - 2 January 2017 Secretary of Corrections and Rehabilitation José Negrón Fernández PPD 2 January 2013 - 2 January 2017 Secretary of Family Affairs Idalia Colón Rondón PPD 2 January 2013 - 2 January 2017 Secretary of Housing Rubén Ríos Pagán PPD 2 January 2013 - 2 January 2017 Secretary of Natural and Environmental Resources Carmen Guerrero Pérez PPD 2 January 2013 - 2 January 2017 Secretary of Sports and Recreation Ramón Orta Rodríguez PPD 2 January 2013 - 2 January 2017 Other Cabinet-level officers Commissioner of Safety and Public Protection Héctor Pesquera Ind. 9 April 2012 - 10 April 2017 President of the Puerto Rico Government Development Bank Javier D. Ferrer Fernández PPD 2 January 2013 – 13 July 2014 Melba Acosta Febo PPD 27 October 2014 - 31 July 2016 Alberto Bacó Bagué PPD 31 July 2016 – 2 January 2017
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