Puerto Rico is holding an unprecedented election. Bad Bunny took a major stand.

The Puerto Rican singer came out in support of Juan Dalmau, a third-party candidate that has emerged as a strong contender and an alternative to the two parties in power for over 70 years.

Bad Bunny is recognized globally for establishing reggaeton as a mainstream music genre and exporting Puerto Rican culture to the world.

But the millennials who grew up in Puerto Rico the same time as Bad Bunny, who is 30 — as well as the Puerto Rican Gen Zers who have come of age idolizing him as an artist — connect with his music in a way none of the billions of other people who listen to his music internationally will ever understand.

With a critical election approaching Puerto Rico on Tuesday, Bad Bunny made a seismic announcement Sunday, telling a crowd he would be voting for a third-party candidate who has upended the island's two-party system for the first time in over 70 years.

“I have not endorsed anyone. Puerto Rico has given an organic endorsement,” Bad Bunny told the thousands at the rally. “It’s you who have inspired me, once again. It’s you, the people of Puerto Rico, who have told me that on Nov. 5th, we must vote for Juan Dalmau and the ‘Alianza’” (Alliance).

Dalmau, whom Bad Bunny endorsed, is the candidate of a new third-party coalition that merged the minority Puerto Rican Independence Party with the Citizens’ Victory Movement — a party founded in 2019 that promised to prioritize good governance over the long-running battle between Puerto Rico's two main political parties.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/bad-bunny-endorses-dalmau-election-puerto-rico-rcna178683

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