President-elect Luis Abinader tweeted on Monday that he chose Yadhira Henríquez to be his new director of the Social Plan of the Presidency starting 16 August.
She has been a councilwoman and deputy to the National Congress for the National District (1994-2000). She was the Dominican Republic’s first Women’s Minister in 2000 under the President Hipólito Mejía government.
She has a doctorate in law from the Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo (UASD), where she also obtained a postgraduate degree in Diplomacy and International Relations and another in Criminal Procedural Law.
She is the wife of a former president of the Dominican Revolutionary Party (PRD), Vicente Sánchez Baret. Sánchez Baret is a former senator for Sanchez Ramírez. The PRM was formed when the party split between the followers of Hipolito Mejía and Luis Abinader and those following Miguel Vargas.
The Abinader cabinet is shaping up as follows, in order of announcement of the appointments:
Ethics and Corruption Office director: Milagros Ortiz Bosch
Minister of the Presidency: Lisandro Macarrulla
Foreign Relations Minister: Roberto Álvarez Gil
Education Minister: Roberto Furcal
Spokesperson for the Presidency: Milagros Germán
Governor of the Central Bank: Hector Valdez Albizu
Economy & Planning Minister: Miguel Ceara Hatton
Hacienda Minister: Jochi Vicente
Superintendent of Banks: Alejandro Fernández Whipple
National Budget director: Jose Rijo Presbot
CEI-RD director: Biviana Riveiro
Economic advisor to the President: Pedro Silverio
Legal Advisor to the President: Antoliano Peralta
Energy & Mines Minister: Antonio Almonte Reynoso
Administrative Minister of the Presidency: José Ignacio Paliza
Defense Minister: Major General Carlos Luciano Díaz Morfa
Head of the Health Cabinet: Vice President-elect Raquel Peña
Public Health Minister: Plutarco Arias
Deputy Minister for Collective Health: Ivelisse Acosta
Executive director Public Procurement Agency: Carlos Pimentel
Tourism Minister: David Collado
Tourism Advisor to the President: Joel Santos
Public Works Minister Deligne Ascención
Youth Minister: Kimberly Taveras Duarte
Interior & Police Minister: Jesús (Chu) Vásquez
Public Administration Minister: Dario Castillo Lugo
Labor Minister: Luis Miguel de Camps
National Health Service: Dr. Mario Lama
Ambassador to the USA: Sonia Guzmán
Women Minister: Mayra Jiménez
Industry & Commerce Minister: Victor (Ito) Bisonó
Sports Minister: Francisco Camacho
Agriculture Minister: Limber Cruz
Social Plan of the Presidency director: Yadhira Henríquez
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3 August 2020