Coral Gables City Manager Peter Iglesias will live to see another day at City Hall.

Iglesias survived an attempt to fire him driven by newly-elected Commissioner Ariel Fernandez, who said at Tuesday’s commission meeting that Iglesias was too secretive and rude to residents and was leading the city in the wrong direction.

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Mayor Jose “Pepe” Diaz gets his slate to run the city

DEVELOPING STORY: Sweetwater on Tuesday was the opposite of Coral Gables because the mayor got all his candidates elected in the city elections.

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Planned “mobility hub” garage gets a big thumbs down

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Critics say it is another vanity project for his wife

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UPDATED: Well, that didn’t take long.

True to his campaign talk, newly-elected Commissioner Ariel Fernandez has moved to dismiss City Manager Peter Iglesias. He has put a discussion on the May 9 commission agenda “regarding the termination of the city manager.”

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Coral Gables Mayor Vince Lago is not as popular as he thinks he is. There’s no doubt that these recent commission races were a referendum on his leadership.

Even though he won re-election with no opposition, Lago worked hard to get his cronies elected. He called people and asked them to put signs in their yard. He texted people to remind them to vote for his candidates. Friends say he was obsessed with the commission races.

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