Government
Abel Nazario Quiñones of the New Progressive Party has held the office of Mayor of Yauco since 2000. He succeeded Pedro Jaime Torres by winning the 2000 general election and won retained his seat in both 2004 and 2008. Nazario took a 50% paycut which was reversed in 2005, yet his current annual wage of $36,000 is the lowest for any of the 78 Puerto Rican mayors, despite Yauco not being the least-populated municipality or the one with the lowest budget.
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