{"id":163017,"date":"2021-08-17T05:54:46","date_gmt":"2021-08-17T09:54:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/?p=163017"},"modified":"2021-08-17T09:32:17","modified_gmt":"2021-08-17T13:32:17","slug":"eduardo-estrella-elected-president-of-the-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2021\/08\/17\/eduardo-estrella-elected-president-of-the-senate\/","title":{"rendered":"Eduardo Estrella elected president of the Senate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Eduardo-Estrella-Senador-pagina-Twitter-1024x758.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-163101\" width=\"600\" height=\"444\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>As had been announced, Eduardo Estrella (Dominicanos por el Cambio-Santiago) was elected for a second consecutive term to preside the Senate. Despite the Tropical Depression Grace, the senators decided not to miss a day at work and installed the board of directors for the 2021-2022 term on 16 August 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other members of the presiding board are senator Santiago Jos\u00e9 Zorrilla (PRM-El Seibo) as vice-president, in addition to Ginnette Altagracia Bournigal (PRM-Puerto Plata) and L\u00eda Ynocencia D\u00edaz Santana (PRM-Azua) as secretaries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Modern Revolutionary Party (PRM) announced their spokespersons will be senator Faride Raful (National District) and senator Alexis Victoria Yeb (Maria Trinidad S\u00e1nchez).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the Dominican Liberation Party, Senator Aris Ivan Lorenzo Suero (El\u00edas Pi\u00f1a) was chosen as spokesperson and Valentin Medrano (Independencia) will be the deputy spokesperson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The spokesman for the People&#8217;s Force (FP) will be Senator Dionis S\u00e1nchez (Pedernales), and Franklin Rodr\u00edguez (San Crist\u00f3bal) will be the deputy spokesman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the same day, the Chamber of Deputies confirmed Alfredo Pacheco would again preside the lower house. The other presiding members of the Chamber of Deputies are Olfanny M\u00e9ndez (PRM-Bahoruco), vice president. Nelsa Shoraya Su\u00e1rez (PRM-Santiago), and Agust\u00edn Burgos (PRM-La Vega), repeat as secretaries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The spokespersons for the parties as of 16 August 2021 will be: Social Christian Reformist Party (PRSC) &#8212; Rogelio Alfonso Genao, replacing M\u00e1ximo Castro Silverio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the Dominican Revolutionary Party (PRD), Fior Daliza Peguero Varela will replace H\u00e9ctor Dar\u00edo F\u00e9liz. Mateo Espaillat for Dominicans for Change (DxC). The PQDC-BIS-PCR coalition will be represented by Miguel de los Santos, replacing El\u00edas Wessin Chavez. Pedro Mart\u00ednez of Alianza Pa\u00eds (Alpa\u00eds) will replace Jos\u00e9 Horacio Rodr\u00edguez.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/listindiario.com\/la-republica\/2021\/08\/16\/684129\/senado-ratifica-a-eduardo-estrella-como-presidente-y-el-resto-de-su-bufete-directivo\">Listin Diario <\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/eldia.com.do\/senado-juramenta-su-bufete-directivo\/\">El Dia <\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/hoy.com.do\/alfredo-pacheco-es-juramentado-nueva-vez-como-presidente-de-la-camara-de-diputados\/\">Hoy <\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.diariolibre.com\/actualidad\/politica\/estrella-y-pacheco-se-juramentan-inicia-segunda-legislatura-de-2021-DC28193213\">Diario Libre <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>17 August 2021<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As had been announced, Eduardo Estrella (Dominicanos por el Cambio-Santiago) was elected for a second consecutive term to preside the Senate. Despite the Tropical Depression Grace, the senators decided not to miss a day at work and installed the board of directors for the 2021-2022 term on 16 August 2021. Other members of the presiding &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2021\/08\/17\/eduardo-estrella-elected-president-of-the-senate\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[290,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163017"}],"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=163017"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":163102,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163017\/revisions\/163102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}