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12 unusual facts about Leonel Fernández


Electricity sector in the Dominican Republic

In 2006, by request of President Leonel Fernández, the CDEEE, the CNE and the SIE designed a Comprehensive Plan for the Electricity Sector for the period 2006-2012.

Giovanna Negretti

Over the past several years Negretti has consulted with Dominican Republic President Leonel Fernández, worked with Sapientis, a non-profit organization focused on education in Puerto Rico.

Héctor Valdez Albizu

He was reconfirmed in that position in August 1996 by President Leonel Fernández, and was granted the rank of Cabinet Minister, occupying that position until August 16, 2000.

The magazine granted the prize acknowledging Valdez Albizu's contributions to recuperating the Dominican economy achieved during President Leonel Fernández's current administration.

Luis Emilio Velutini

In August 2010, he inaugurated alongside President Leonel Fernández, "Blue Mall Santo Domingo" in Dominican Republic, a commercial complex located in Santo Domingo.

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Leonel Fernández, President Dominican Republic,(Dominican Republic)

Santo Domingo Metro

Leonel Fernández was returned to power and promised to continue the expansion of the SDM across the Greater Santo Domingo.

In the presidential elections that took place on May 16, 2008, President Leonel Fernández was re-elected for his second consecutive term.

President Leonel Fernández proposed and started the construction of the first subway system in the Dominican Republic and second in the Caribbean.

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Global Foundation for Democracy and Development (FUNGLODE) Maria Montez short film first prize presented by Dominican president Leonel Fernández.

Urano Teixeira da Matta Bacellar

On January 2011, Diplomatic cables from 2005 and 2006 released by Wikileaks in the United States diplomatic cables leak, revealed that Dominican Republic President Leonel Fernández suspected Bacellar had been assassinated by a group of contras led by Guy Philippe, a former soldier and police chief and an Haitian anti-Aristide "rebel" leader that had been armed by the USA.

Yegor Lavroff

So far a President of the Dominican Republic Leonel Fernández enjoyed the support of the "ELPA" during the last presidential campaign in the country, as well as a current Member of Parliament Gerardo Bogaert.


Mauricio Báez Bridge

The cost of the bridge was around RD$1 billion, and paid for by the SEOPC (Secretary of State for Public Works and Communications) after the approval of President Leonel Fernández.

Quirino Paulino

The report points out that Paulino employed engineer Henry Duval, a PLD director, who was director of the INDRHI in San Juan de la Maguana during the 1996-2000 Fernández Administration as chief of irrigation in one of his farms in 2000 when the latter was fired from his government post with the change of government.