Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic (EFE) Array- The new Dominican President, Luis Abinader, will be endowed this Sunday in a reduced rite either in his apparatus and related to the number of visitors due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Economist and entrepreneur Luis Abinader Corona will be the 67th leader of the Dominican Republic.
Only foreign delegations from 8 countries will attend Santo Domingo, adding up to 3 presidents. At the same time, the United States will send Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who is its point of representation at the inauguration of a Dominican president since 1978.
Abinader, a 53-year-old economist, won the election on July 5, the Caribbean country’s first political replacement since 2004.
The only foreign presidents who agreed to stop the pandemic in the Dominican Republic were Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernández, Haiti, Jovenel Moise, and Guinea Bissau, Umaro Sissoco Embala, who was the first dignitary to reach Dominican soil on Friday.
In addition to the United States, delegations from 3 other countries will be led through their chancellors: Spain, with Arancha González Laya, Guatemala, with Pedro Brolo, and Turkey, with Mevlut ‘avusoglu, while Serbia has sent its Minister of Labor. .
Most foreign countries will be represented through their ambassadors in Santo Domingo to prevent at a time when the Dominican Republic lives with an increase in infections, with almost a thousand new cases in line with the day.
Currently, the country is in a state of emergency and has a curfew in force due to COVID-19, which caused 1,438 deaths and 85,545 contagions.
REDUCED CORONAVIRUS CEREMONY
The pandemic has also been a relief in the rite program and the number of participants in the National Congress, where Abinader will take the oath and deliver a speech.
With coVID-19 argument, outgoing President Danilo Medina announced that he would only participate in the presidential belt delivery at Abinader. He then retired from the administrative headquarters, without hearing the speech of his successor and political rival.
Among the acts that departed from the rite were the classic military parade and the gala dinner. However, the oath of ministers was maintained at the National Palace, the lunch of foreign dignitaries and the Mass.
All participants in the inauguration must wear a mask, which is mandatory in the country, and the white costume that is classic in this rite in several Caribbean countries.
POMPEO’S FIRM AGENDA
Secretary Pompeo will meet with outgoing President and Abinader to highlight America’s former smart relations with the Dominican Republic, one of its key allies.
According to data from U.S. Secretary of State, Pompeo will talk to Abinder about how transparency, democracy and security can be promoted in the region and the challenge of economic recovery in the afterturn of confinement.
Pompeo will also take the time to talk with the Haitian president about the willingness to schedule the legislative elections that took place last October and which were postponed by the protests that have rocked the country for 3 months.
He will also hold an assembly with the Turkish chancellor, whose problems have transcended.
GOVERNMENT ABINADER
The President-elect of the Dominican Republic has appointed 21 of the 22 long-term ministers, adding up to 18 men and 3 women.
The sideboard includes several renowned businessmen and prominent leaders of the Modern Revolutionary Party (PRM), a political party of social democratic origin, but which has proposals closer to liberalism on express economic issues.
The PRM was founded in 2014 following its separation from the Dominican Revolutionary Party (PRD), which was in force between 2000 and 2004. Efe
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