Hialeah City Councilman and mayoral candidate Jesus Tundidor slammed interim Hialeah Mayor Jacqueline Garcia-Roves after the Miami Herald reported she was fined by the city's Code Compliance Department for multiple instances of illegal construction at her personal residence.

"You cannot ask residents to trust you while breaking the very laws you’re supposed to enforce," said Tundidor in a statement on Thursday. "Hialeah deserves leaders who act with integrity — not double standards."

"This type of conduct is unacceptable for any public official, especially for someone temporarily occupying the mayor’s office," he added.

Garcia-Roves, the former city council president, took on the role as interim mayor last April following the resignation of former Mayor Esteban Bovo, who took a new jo

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