On June 11, Puerto Rico votes on its future political status. During April, the Puerto Rico government added a third option, for maintaining the status quo, Commonwealth status. Originally the vote was only going to include the choice of statehood, or independence.

The Governor and Speaker of the Puerto Rico House of Representatives both strongly favor statehood. According to this story, the U.S. Justice Department required Puerto Rico to add the choice to maintain commonwealth status. Also see this story.

Here is a copy of the June 11 ballot.

The Albuquerque Journal has this article (scroll down) mentioning that the Libertarian Party will have a primary in 2018. This will be the first time that the New Mexico Libertarian Party has ever before qualified for its own primary. If the party retains that status in the November 2018 election, it will also have a primary in 2020, along with its first New Mexico presidential primary.

On May 31, leaders of seven British parties debated each other, except that the leader of the Conservative Party, Theresa May, didn’t appear and sent a spokesperson to take her place. The election is June 8. See this story.

The seven debaters were: Jeremy Corbyn (Labour); Tim Farron (Liberal Democrat); Caroline Lucas (Green); Paul Nuttall (UKIP); Angus Robertson (Scottish National); Amber Rudd (Conservative); and Leanne Wood (Plaid Cymru). The debate lasted 90 minutes and was broadcast on BBC One.