Former President Leonel Fernandez used his extraordinary public speaker capacity to make a point for being patient in politics. In his conference “Leadership and Power: How to be 21st Century Leaders” to members of the Youths with Leonel (JUDEL) at the Hotel Embajador, Fernandez commented that the succession of leadership is like a torch that requires the patience of he who will receive it, to not clash with whom will pass it, and wait for it to be passed, and not take care to not snatch it to not be burned.
A three-time President of the Republic (1996-2000, 2004-2012), Fernandez is the president of the ruling PLD party. A recent poll said he was the strongest contender for candidate for the PLD.
In his conference, he said that in politics there is no permanent victory or defeat. “You can have experienced a setback, but that does not mean that you are defeated. One can rise again and climb the next mountain,” he said.
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