She was defeated by Pedro Rosselló, the candidate for the New Progressive Party.
Elected in 1988, when his New Party for Progress (NPP) lost most races, Rosales served as mayor of Camuy for 14 years before resigning in October 2002.
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In April 2011, the 2012 PPD Ponce mayoral candidate Ramón Torres Morales, criticized the incumbent opposition PNP party mayor María Meléndez for placing a plaque on the bust that former PPD mayor Churumba had erected at the entrance to the Juan Pachins Vicens auditorium to commemorate the basketball legend.
On March 2012, an audio was leaked to YouTube in which Hernández is heard chastising municipal employees for their lack of support to activities of the campaign of the New Progressive Party and Luis Fortuño.
Political opponents of Pedro Rosselló's administration raised various objections to the original plan, claiming that the lot of land purchased for the construction would benefit some of his political party's (PNP) heaviest financial contributors.