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4) independent nation, and (5) none of the above. But the Popular Democratic Party (PDP) wants to include the “enhanced commonwealth,” option, which they define as a pact between two sovereign countries where both have U.S. citizenship. U.S. leaders had already dismissed this concept as unconstitutional, but when the PDP threatens a boycott, the “none of the above” option is added as a compromise measure. In a surprising result, "none of the above" wins. It garners 50.3 percent of the votes. The pro-statehood governor explains the result to Congress as a protest vote against his administration for selling the Puerto Rico-owned phone company to American-owned GTE. The PDP insists that it reflects overwhelming discontent with the omission of the enhanced commonwealth option. The independence party concludes it is a rejection of statehood. The former pro-statehood 
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