{"id":66440,"date":"2015-05-25T01:43:56","date_gmt":"2015-05-25T01:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/pages\/30-of-35-pld-political-committee-members-hold-senior-government-posts\/"},"modified":"2015-05-25T01:43:56","modified_gmt":"2015-05-25T01:43:56","slug":"30-of-35-pld-political-committee-members-hold-senior-government-posts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2015\/05\/25\/30-of-35-pld-political-committee-members-hold-senior-government-posts\/","title":{"rendered":"30 of 35 PLD political committee members hold senior government posts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> It used to be said that one could not hold a public post to be a member of the influential PLD Political Committee. However, everything has changed and an overwhelming majority of 30 of the 35 Political Committee members now hold key government posts. <\/p>\n<p> Meanwhile, PRM presidential candidate, Luis Abinader has criticized the fact that most government officials are dedicating long hours to re-election or politics, which is affecting the flow of government and national affairs. <\/p>\n<p> The PLD Political Committee members are:<\/p>\n<p> Reinaldo Pared Perez, party general secretary and National District senator <\/p>\n<p> Vice President Margarita Cedeno <\/p>\n<p> Minister of Sports Jaime David Fernandez Mirabal <\/p>\n<p> Minister of Women Alejandrina German<\/p>\n<p> Minister of Environment Bautista Rojas Gomez<\/p>\n<p> Minister of Hacienda Simon Lizardo<\/p>\n<p> Minister of Education Carlos Amarante Baret<\/p>\n<p> Minister of Tourism Francisco Javier Garcia<\/p>\n<p> Minister of Economy Juan Temistocles Montas<\/p>\n<p> Minister of Interior and Police Jose Ramon Fadul<\/p>\n<p> Minister of Public Works Gonzalo Castillo<\/p>\n<p> Minister of Public Administration Ramon Ventura Camejo<\/p>\n<p> Chamber of Deputies president Abel Martinez.<\/p>\n<p> Senate president Cristina Lizardo<\/p>\n<p> National District Deputy Miriam Altagracia Cabral Perez<\/p>\n<p> National Deputy Radhames Camacho Cuevas<\/p>\n<p> Santiago Senator Julio Cesar Valentin<\/p>\n<p> Chamber of Deputies Vice president Lucia Medina Sanchez<\/p>\n<p> Dominican consul in New York Eduardo Selman<\/p>\n<p> Dominican ambassador in the United States Jose Tomas Perez<\/p>\n<p> Ethics Commission Director Jose Joaquin Bido Medina<\/p>\n<p> INAVI Director Alma Fernandez<\/p>\n<p> Insurance Superintendent Euclides Gutierrez Felix<\/p>\n<p> CDEEE Executive VP Ruben Jimenez Bichara<\/p>\n<p> Dominican Petroleum Refinery President Felix Jimenez<\/p>\n<p> Santo Domingo East Mayor Juan de los Santos<\/p>\n<p> President Medina&#8217;s Personal Assistant, Carlos Pared Perez<\/p>\n<p> Presidency Legal Advisor Cesar Pina Toribio<\/p>\n<p> Special Projects Director Lidio Cadet<\/p>\n<p> Also former President Leonel Fernandez, former Vice President Rafael Alburquerque, former Attorney General Radhames Jimenez, former executive VP of the CDEEE Radhames Segura, and former Minister of Interior and Police Franklin Almeyda Rancier. <\/p>\n<p> http:\/\/eldia.com.do\/comite-politico-enquistado-en-el-estado\/s<\/p>\n<p> http:\/\/acento.com.do\/2015\/politica\/8251802-luis-abinader-proyecto-reeleccionista-esta-afectando-el-desempeno-del-gobierno\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It used to be said that one could not hold a public post to be a member of the influential PLD Political Committee. However, everything has changed and an overwhelming majority of 30 of the 35 Political Committee members now hold key government posts. Meanwhile, PRM presidential candidate, Luis Abinader has criticized the fact that &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2015\/05\/25\/30-of-35-pld-political-committee-members-hold-senior-government-posts\/\" 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":[234,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66440"}],"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=66440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}