Editing Politics of Puerto Rico (section)

==== 2000s ====
The corruption led the PNP to lose the 2000 election and the Governorship when he ran again in 2004. In 2000, [[Sila María Calderón]] (PPD) was elected, becoming the first female governor of Puerto Rico, also gaining control of the Senate, presided over by [[Antonio Fas Alzamora]] and the House of Representatives, headed by Speaker [[Carlos Vizcarrondo]]. The PPD also elected [[Aníbal Acevedo Vilá]] as the island's non-voting delegate in Congress.

In 2004, [[Aníbal Acevedo Vilá]] (PPD) was declared the winner by the [[Supreme Court of Puerto Rico]] as [[Governor of Puerto Rico|governor]] by about 3,000 votes, but his party lost control of the Senate, which elected PNP Senator [[Kenneth McClintock]] as its president, and the House of Representatives, which chose the PNP's [[José Aponte Hernández|José Aponte]] as Speaker, and Puerto Rico's seat in Congress, due to the election of [[Luis Fortuño]].

During the 2005–2008 term, former Gov. Rosselló's unsuccessful attempt to unseat Senate President McClintock split the New Progressive Party, a split that continued as Rosselló initiated a fourth bid for the governorship against Resident Commissioner Fortuño in an internal primary that was held March 9, 2008, and which he lost. On the PPD side, Acevedo's rocky relationship with the PNP-controlled Legislature was compounded with Federal investigations and unsuccessful indictments of his past political fundraising by grand juries in [[Philadelphia]] and [[San Juan, Puerto Rico]].

In 2008, [[Luis Fortuño]] (PNP) was elected [[Governor of Puerto Rico|governor]], giving the [[New Progressive Party of Puerto Rico|New Progressive Party]] its largest victory in history and beating incumbent Gov. Aníbal Acevedo Vilá of the [[Popular Democratic Party (Puerto Rico)|Popular Democratic Party]] (PPD) by more than 223,000 votes. Also the PNP won supermajorities in the Commonwealth's [[Puerto Rico House of Representatives|House of Representatives]] and [[Senate of Puerto Rico|Senate]].