Senator Ángel Toledo said on Friday, November 13, that the concurrent resolution seeking the departure of Family Secretary Suzanne Roig remains pending in the Puerto Rico Senate until the Family Committee’s investigation concludes, and that a vote would come in 2027. In an interview on the program En Caliente con Carmen Jovet on NotiUno 630, Toledo denied the delay was due to fear.
He said the Senate took up and evaluated the motion filed by Senator Adrián González Costa, and that through a concurrent resolution the body can send a message, but neither the Senate nor the House has the constitutional power to remove an agency head, whose removal falls to the Executive. Toledo said he and the Senate president had publicly said they would vote in favor of the resolution, and that he asked publicly for the secretary’s resignation some time ago, as did other legislators.
The Family Committee investigation is still under way and is awaiting documents and sworn statements requested by the majority and the minorities; that investigation would ground an expression by the body. Because the session ends on Tuesday, the resolution’s vote would be left for 2027. Toledo said the call for the secretary’s resignation and the request to the governor to withdraw her confidence both stand, and that in his judgment the investigation could end in referrals, though he said he does not prejudge it. No date was given for the investigation’s conclusion.