As he approaches the first year in government, President Danilo Medina has managed to enjoy an extended “honeymoon” with the people. He has maintained a broad popularity rating of over 80%, based on his own style of governing, which includes taking on direct commitments to small community problems and even personally supervising some of the projects. News reports say that after a wave of protests that reached a high point at the end of 2012 with a march on National Congress in November and protest rallies by middle class protestors in Parque Independencia and on the Malecon and at the Eugenio Maria de Hostos Park in Santo Domingo, the Medina administration has not had any major problems. The first negative incident that Medina had to tackle was on 16 August 2012, when he left eight ministers, the governor of the Central Bank and at least 16 directors general of the former administration in their same positions. This caused widespread disappointment among the population that expected a complete change in the cabinet upon the arrival of a new administration.
On 26 June, 51 days before the end of his first year in office, Medina began to slowly change the layout of his administration, replacing the National Police Chief and the head of the National Drug Control Agency (DNCD). He continued making far-reaching changes by placing people he trusted and who were part of his group in key positions, such as Carlos Amarante Baret at the Ministry of Education, Enrique Ramirez Paniagua as the administrator of the Banco de Reservas and bringing in Gedeon Santos to his team, when he appointed him to head the Dominican Telecommunications Institute (Indotel).
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