The Listín Diario gives credit to outgoing President Leonel Fernández at a time his government his under much bad press. "During his administration, the country advanced in the consolidation of a state of law, in the maintenance of high levels of economic growth, in institutional aspects and in different areas of public service," writes the leading Dominican newspaper. We have had in Leonel Fernández a great President, a moderate and respectful political leader that, like all who loves his country, had more ambitions than what time and resources allowed him to do."
