Republican mayoral candidate Nicole Malliotakis is skipping the June 11 Puerto Rican Day Parade to protest the parade board’s decision to honor pardoned terrorist Oscar Lopez Rivera.

“As a Latina of Cuban descent with relatives residing in Puerto Rico, I was excited about marching in this year’s Puerto Rican Day Parade as a candidate for Mayor of New York City. I share a love for this beautiful island, its people and its culture with the nearly 725,000 Puerto Ricans in our city,” said Malliotakis, a​n​ assemblywoman who represents parts of Staten Island and south Brooklyn.

“Unfortunately, this year’s parade has been politicized by the parade committee and it’s choice to honor Oscar Lopez Rivera, a controversial figure who was a leader of FALN which claimed responsibility for the 1975 bombing in New York City that killed four people and injured more than 60. There are many Puerto Rican entertainers, athletes and business leaders who have contributed greatly to our city and nation and would have been a more appropriate and less divisive choice,” she said.

“In light of the parade committees choice, I have decided to not attend the parade. It is my hope that we can work together in the future to help fulfill the people of Puerto Rico’s choice to become either a state or a sovereign nation.”

Malliotakis’ boycott is just the latest fallout over the Oscar Lopez controversy. Last week, outraged Hispanic police groups and Goya Foods pulled support from the 60th national Puerto Rican Day Parade, which marches along Fifth Avenue.

Mayor de Blasio said he intends to march despite the parade board’s decision to honor Oscar Lopez with its first “National Freedom Hero” award.

Gov. Cuomo said he is “inclined” to march but has not made a final decision.

Supporters of the parade’s decision to honor Oscar Lopez are trying to counter the blowback.

Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito circulated a letter last week urging New York lawmakers to rally around the embattled Puerto Rican Day Board.

Rivera 74, had his 70-year sentence commuted by outgoing President Barack Obama in January after serving nearly 36 years in prison following his conviction of conspiracy and sedition charges for his ties to the Puerto Rican nationalist group, FALN, which was responsible for more than 100 bombings in the 1970s and 80s — including the 1982 blast at NYPD headquarters that left an officer maimed and a 1975 attacked that killed four at Fraunces Tavern in the Financial District.

Mark-Viverito visited Oscar Lopez last Wednesday in Puerto Rico, after he was freed from house detention. She giddily snapped pictures of the man many Puerto Rican nationalists hail as a freedom fighter.

Malliotakis’ major opponent in the GOP mayoral primary is real estate executive Paul Massey.