President Leonel Fernández replaced five members of the board of the Corporación Dominicana de Electricidad (CDE). The new members of the state electricity utility are engineers Jose Aponte and Jose Luis Moreno, Roberto Rodríguez Estrella, lawyer Jaime Aristy Escuder and journalist Antonio Jacobo Constant Miguel. They replace engineers Ramón Flores, Eduardo Rodríguez, Mariano Germán, Manuel Cocco and César Armenteros. Celso Marranzini continues to preside the board. Hoy revealed that the board members may have been forced to resign. Reportedly they had disagreements with the new administrator of the CDE, engineer Radhamés Segura. Hoy reported that some of the resigning board members had criticized that Segura is the principal executive in the country of the Italian energy generation Enel that has several contracts with the CDE for jobs in the East, North and the Parque Higuamo. On the other hand, Hoy reported that close aides of former administrator Temístocles Montás have been forced to resign.
