A well-known jurist and former president of the Lawyers’ Association of the Dominican Republic, Dr. Domingo Porfirio Rojas Nina, has drafted a bill for Senate President Ramón Alburquerque (PRD-Monte Plata) that would rename San Cristóbal Province as José Francisco Peña Gómez Province. Dr. Peña Gómez, who died May 10, 1998 in San Cristóbal, was the leader of the Dominican Revolutionary Party (PRD), its perennial presidential candidate and a former mayor of Santo Domingo. The draft bill would change the province’s name in January 1999, but the provincial capital would retain the name San Cristóbal.
