{"id":113046,"date":"2018-05-29T11:06:52","date_gmt":"2018-05-29T15:06:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/?p=113046"},"modified":"2018-05-29T11:06:52","modified_gmt":"2018-05-29T15:06:52","slug":"carlos-amarante-to-compete-for-pld-presidential-candidacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2018\/05\/29\/carlos-amarante-to-compete-for-pld-presidential-candidacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Carlos Amarante to compete for PLD presidential candidacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Minister of Interior and Police Carlos Amarante Baret announced on Monday, 28 May 2018 that he is resigning his position to concentrate on his campaign for the ruling Dominican Liberation Party presidential candidacy. He joins former Environment Minister Francisco Dom\u00ednguez Brito, who also announced he was resigning the post to in seek the PLD candidacy for the 2020 presidential election. Amarante Baret made the announcement during an event held at the Hotel Crowne Plaza on the Malec\u00f3n in Santo Domingo.<\/p>\n<p>Amarante Baret is from Moca, where he was born on 3 July 1960. He graduated in law in 1984 from PUCMM. He has a Master\u2019s degree in security and national defense. During the Medina administrations he was appointed minister of education in 2013 and then minister of interior and police in 2016. Previously he was senator for Espaillat province, general administrator of National Assets. In addition he has been the director general of the Migration Agency and president of the board at the Dominican Telecommunication\u2019s Institute (Indotel).<\/p>\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/eldia.com.do\/amarante-baret-renuncia-como-ministro-de-interior-para-buscar-candidatura-presidencial-del-pld\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">El Dia<\/a><\/p>\n<p>29 May 2018<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minister of Interior and Police Carlos Amarante Baret announced on Monday, 28 May 2018 that he is resigning his position to concentrate on his campaign for the ruling Dominican Liberation Party presidential candidacy. He joins former Environment Minister Francisco Dom\u00ednguez Brito, who also announced he was resigning the post to in seek the PLD candidacy &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2018\/05\/29\/carlos-amarante-to-compete-for-pld-presidential-candidacy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113046"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113046\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}