President Leonel Fernández, in a meeting at the National Palace with the board of directors of the Corporación Dominicana de Electricidad and the Comisión de Reforma de la Empresa Pública, the government committee in charge of the privatization of government enterprises, said that as of July the distribution and marketing of power will be in the hands of private companies. He said the CDE is following the time schedule for its privatization as it was originally designed. He said that the CDE program for the installation of power plants that was recently approved by the new board of directors does not mean that the CDE will be operating the new plants. These will be transferred to the private companies that win the tender as part of the privatization of the CDE.