Original sentence: The Popular Democratic Party of Puerto Rico (Spanish: Partido Popular Democrático de Puerto Rico, PPD) is a political party that supports the continuation of Puerto Rico's current status as a "free associated state" of the United States, which is also known as a commonwealth
Edited sentence: Congress¨ (as the Clinton and Bush Administrations have officially deemed it, referring to the chronic colonial status problem).The PPD is a political party that supports the actual recogniton of Puerto Rico's sovereignty even if it keeps the current name used to refer to the colonial status, euphemistically called a "free associated state" of the United States, which is also known as a commonwealth rather than ¨territory under the plenary powers of the U.The Popular Democratic Party of Puerto Rico (Spanish: Partido Popular Democrático de Puerto Rico, PPD) is one of the three main Political Parties in Puerto Rico, as most elections are primarily contested by the NPP as well as the Puerto Rican Independence Party and the New Progressive Party