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The new cabinet

The cabinet of newly-sworn-in President Leonel Fernández was announced just hours after the inauguration ceremony on 16 August. Those appointed to cabinet positions include:

Danilo Medina, Secretary of the Presidency

Eduardo Selman, Technical Secretary of the Presidency

Diandino Peña, Administrative Secretary of the Presidency

Lidio Cadet, Minister sans Portfolio

Ramón Ventura Camejo, Minister sans Portfolio

Juan Marichal, Minister of Sports

Herasmo Vásquez, Minister of Public Health

Frank Rodriguez, Minister of Agriculture,

Luis Manuel Bonetti, Minister of Industry and Commerce,

Ligia Melo, Minister of Education

Rafael Alburquerque, Minister of Labor,

Felix Jimenez, Minister of Tourism,

Daniel Toribio, Minister of Finance

Norge Botello, Minister of the Police and Interior

Air Force General Juan Bautista Rojas Tabar, Minister of the Armed Forces,

Euclides Gutierrez, director CORDE,

Cesar Pina Toribio, Judicial Consultant to the President,

Diandino Peña, Administrative Secretary of the Presidency

Temístocles Montás, director CDE

Max Puig, coordinator of funds for Lomé

Abel Rodríguez del Orbe, General Procurator of the Nation

Miguel Guerrero, director of Information and Press of the National Palace

General Manuel de Jesús Florentino, Chief of Military Aides

General Máximo Morel Marichal, Chief of the Presidential Guard

Rear Admiral Gerardo Santana Solano, Chief of the Navy

General Andrés Apolinar Disla, Chief of the Army

General Luis A. Luna Paulino, Chief of the Air Force