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Governor Sila Calderón will not take immediate measures against Toa Baja Mayor Víctor Santiago Díaz, against whom the Municipal Assembly filed a complaint for alleged improper conduct of a sexual nature. "There have been public statements by the Assembly and the Mayor. These statements are being reviewed by the pertinent political authorities with the utmost respect towards the Assembly and the Mayor and I am not going to rule anything at this moment while the situation is being investigated," Calderón stated. The complaint asks for the Mayor's removal. He is accused of engaging in consistent acts of moral depravity by...

(English-language translation) Municipal assemblymen from the Popular Democratic Party (PDP) in Toa Baja (Puerto Rico) asked the party to expel Mayor Víctor Santiago Díaz, to whom consistent acts of moral depravity are attributed. On the same day Santiago Díaz was presenting his budget report, 9 of 13 PDP municipal assemblymen submitted a formal complaint to party headquarters in favor of expulsion and requested that he be suspended from all political positions. The complaint is based on a lawsuit filed in Federal Court against the Mayor this past November by René Rivera Ruiz and Rolando de Jesús Meléndez, two former employees...