Jorge Santini, general secretary of the New Progressive Party (PNP) and a former San Juan mayor, acknowledged the party faces internal differences but said they are part of the political ebb and flow and will be overcome. In an interview with Metro Puerto Rico’s Punto X Punto, he said the scrutiny facing Governor Jenniffer González Colón’s administration comes mostly from inside the party rather than from an opposition he described as nearly silent.
In recent months, legislators and PNP figures have filed referrals against administration officials, including Senator Juan Oscar Morales Rodríguez’s referral against Family Secretary Suzanne Roig Fuertes and one the House of Representatives is preparing against energy czar Josué Colón. While the governor has called some of the allegations political attacks, Santini declined to label them that way and asked that they be fully investigated.
On the Roig Fuertes case, Santini, a lawyer, said he sees no criminal act in NOLA Education paying for meals for the government delegation during a trip to Louisiana, though he urged the senator to pursue the investigation to the bone. He admitted these situations hurt the party’s grassroots. Santini, who took the post in March 2025 at the governor’s request, called a possible gubernatorial primary next year the party’s biggest challenge, but said he would stand with the governor.
Under his reorganization with electoral commissioner Aníbal Vega Borges, seven to eight municipalities remain to reorganize before the party convention, December 4 to 6 in the western region.