Christian Action Party of Puerto Rico v. Veray Torregrosa

Mr. Chief Justice Negrón Fernández, with whom Mr. Justice Hernández Matos and Mr. Justice Santana Becerra concur,

dissenting.

San Juan, Puerto Rico, February 19, 1964

I

If § 6 of art. IX of the Transitory Provisions of our Constitution has the scope attributed by the majority opinion in asserting that the purpose of that provision “is to guarantee the subsistence of political parties rather than the registration of new parties,” then the Constituent Convention did not accomplish its purpose since, far from reducing the requirements to “guarantee the subsistence” of political parties, it made them…