President-elect Luis Abinader announced by tweet that engineer Deligne Ascención will be his minister of Public Works. Civil engineer Deligne Ascención played a key role in the Abinader political campaign.
Ascencion served as the electoral affairs officer of the Modern Revolutionary Party during the Abinader campaign. He had served as Deputy Minister for School Infrastructure at the Ministry of Education (2000-2004), former director of Urban Traffic at the National District Municipality and director of the Project Execution Unit of the Development Bank of the Federal Republic of Germany, KFW.
The announcement comes at the same time that Abinader announced the shutdown of the Office of Supervisory Engineering Works of the Presidency (OISOE) as part of efforts to make government more efficient.
OISOE was created in 1987 to supervise infrastructure projects. Nevertheless, over the years, the department evolved to become a parallel Ministry of Public Works. Several major corruption scandals have surrounded the OISOE under the different governments.
Abinader said the Ministry of Public Works would consolidate all government engineering projects.
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
Public Works Minister Deligne Ascención
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22 July 2020