Dominican Republic's Abinader names cabinet posts as leaders gather for inauguration
Hindustan TimesAug 16 - Dominican Republic leader Luis Abinader prepared to assume his second four-year term as president at his inauguration on Friday, hosting global heads of state and other public figures such as the king of Spain, after naming key members of his executive. Dominican Republic's Abinader names cabinet posts as leaders gather for inauguration Abinader, a 57-year-old former businessman, cinched another term when he secured some 58% of the vote in May on a pro-business platform with a tough stance on corruption and barring migrants from neighboring conflict-hit Haiti. Jose Ignacio Paliza, the president of Abinader's Modern Revolutionary Party and a former senator for the northern Puerto Plata province, was named minister of the presidency, coordinating between the president and other sectors. Abinader also signed a decree for key members of the financial administration to stay on in their posts, including long-standing central bank veteran Hector Valdez as the authority's governor, Clarissa de la Rocha as its vice governor and Alejandro Fernandez as superintendent of the country's banking watchdog.
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