{"id":166716,"date":"2021-10-20T07:59:10","date_gmt":"2021-10-20T11:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/?p=166716"},"modified":"2021-10-20T08:52:10","modified_gmt":"2021-10-20T12:52:10","slug":"daughter-of-minister-of-interior-police-chosen-to-head-major-government-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2021\/10\/20\/daughter-of-minister-of-interior-police-chosen-to-head-major-government-agency\/","title":{"rendered":"Daughter of minister of Interior &#038; Police chosen to head major government agency"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"364\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Maria-Elena-Vazquez-Pro-Competencia-CDN-e1634734319262.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-166766\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The Chamber of Deputies voted without debates to name lawyer Maria Elena Vasquez to preside Pro-Competencia. At the time of her appointment she was the director for the Center for Constitutional Studies of the Constitutional Court. Previously she had served as legal counsel to the president of the Constitutional Court. She has served as a professor of law at the UASD and UNPHU universities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vasquez was chosen from a shortlist that also included two others employed at the same Constitutional Court, D\u00e1ngela Ram\u00edrez Guzm\u00e1n and Fior D&#8217;Aliza Alduey Mercedes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vasquez is the daughter of Minister of Interior &amp; Police Jes\u00fas (Chu) Vasquez, a high-ranking political director in the ruling Modern Revolutionary Party (PRM). She will replace Yolanda Martinez, whose term expired in September 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vasquez is named to the position for a period of five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/hoy.com.do\/diputados-escogen-a-maria-elena-vasquez-taveras-para-procompetencia\/\">Hoy<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.com.do\/nacionales\/diputados-escogen-abogada-maria-elena-vasquez-en-pro-competencia\/\">CDN<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.diariolibre.com\/actualidad\/politica\/sin-debates-camara-de-diputados-selecciona-a-maria-elena-vasquez-para-integrar-pro-competencia-MM29430149\">Diario Libre <\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/procompetencia.gob.do\/en\/about-us\/who-we-are\/\">Pro Competencia<\/a><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>20 October 2021<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chamber of Deputies voted without debates to name lawyer Maria Elena Vasquez to preside Pro-Competencia. At the time of her appointment she was the director for the Center for Constitutional Studies of the Constitutional Court. Previously she had served as legal counsel to the president of the Constitutional Court. She has served as a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2021\/10\/20\/daughter-of-minister-of-interior-police-chosen-to-head-major-government-agency\/\" 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\/166716"}],"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=166716"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":166767,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166716\/revisions\/166767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}