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D<\/SPAN>ominican President Leonel Fern\u00e1ndez was inaugurated for a third term in office on Saturday. He administered an oath of office to the new members of his government who will form part of his cabinet and ratified the current posts of his 13 cabinet members. <\/P> Dominican President Leonel Fern\u00e1ndez was inaugurated for a third term in office on Saturday. He administered an oath of office to the new members of his government who will form part of his cabinet and ratified the current posts of his 13 cabinet members. <\/P> In keeping with Decree 293-08 and Article 55 of the Dominican Constitution, the Chief Executive designated Major General Pedro R. Pe\u00f1a Antonio, formerly of the Dominican Air Force, to be the Minister of the Armed Forces, a post that will include the rank of General Pilot. Dr. C\u00e9sar Pina Toribio was chosen to be Minister of the Presidency, a post that was previously vacant. In the same Decree, the President named Melanio Paredes as Minister of Education, substituting Alejandrina Germ\u00e1n who will head the Ministry of Women. Article 5 of the President\u2019s decree designates Jos\u00e9 Ram\u00f3n Fadul as Minister of Industry and Commerce while Article 6 designates Francisco Javier Garc\u00eda as Minister of Tourism, replacing Felix Jim\u00e9nez. Jaime David Fern\u00e1ndez Mirabal was named Minister of the Environment, replacing Omar Ram\u00edrez. The Labor Ministry will be headed by Maximiliano Puig, who is replacing Jos\u00e9 Ram\u00f3n Fadul. In the same decree, the President named Franklin Rodr\u00edguez as the Minister of Youth, substituting Manuel Crespo. During the ceremony, held in the Ambassadors Hall of the National Palace , President Leonel Fern\u00e1ndez confirmed the current posts of his other 13 cabinet members. Those officials confirmed include Carlos Morales Troncoso as Foreign Minister, Juan Temistocl\u00e9s Mont\u00e1s as Economy, Planning and Development Minister and Luis Manuel Bonetti as the Administrative Director of the Presidency. Also reconfirmed was Radham\u00e9s Jim\u00e9nez as Attorney General, Vicente Bengoa as the Minister of the Treasury Department, Franklin Almeyda Rancier as Minister of Interior and Police and Ligia Amada Melo as Minister of Higher Education, Science and Technology. Minister of Sports, Felipe \u201cJay\u201d Payano will remain in his post as will Agriculture Minister Salvador Jim\u00e9nez, V\u00edctor D\u00edaz Rua as Public Works Minister, Rafael Lantigua as Minister of Culture, Dr. Bautista Rojas G\u00f3mez as Minister of Public Health and Ram\u00f3n Ventura Camejo as Minister of Public Administration. <\/P><\/TD><\/TR> President Fernandez Inaugurated and Swears in New Government Dominican President Leonel Fern\u00e1ndez was inaugurated for a third term in office on Saturday. He administered an oath of office to the new members of his government who will form part of his cabinet and ratified the current posts of his 13 cabinet members. Dominican President Leonel … Continue reading “President Fernandez Inaugurated and Swears in New Government”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-noticias"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2399"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nDate of Publication: August 19, 2008 <\/TD><\/TR><\/TBODY><\/TABLE><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"