The Dominican Republic is a representative democracy,where the President of the Dominican Republic functions as both the head of the government and head of the multi-party system. Executive power is exercised by the government. Legislative power is vested in the bicameral National Congress. The Judiciary is independent of the executive and the legislature.
The Mirabal sisters were four sisters from the Dominican Republic,three of whom opposed the dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo and were involved in clandestine activities against his regime. The three sisters were assassinated on 25 November 1960. The last sister,Adela,who was not involved in political activities at the time,died of natural causes on 1 February 2014.
Danilo Medina Sánchez is a Dominican politician who was President of the Dominican Republic from 2012 to 2020.
Leonel Antonio Fernández Reyna is a Dominican lawyer,academic,and was the 50th and 52nd President of the Dominican Republic from 1996 to 2000 and from 2004 to 2012. From 2016 until 2020,he was the President of the EU–LAC Foundation.
The Dominican Liberation Party is a political party in the Dominican Republic. Founded in 1973 by former president Juan Bosch,the party,along with the Dominican Revolutionary Party,and Social Christian Reformist Party,has dominated politics in the country since the establishment of democracy in the early 1960s.
In the Time of the Butterflies is a 2001 feature film,produced for the Showtime television network,directed by Mariano Barroso and based on Julia Álvarez's book of the same name. The story is a fictionalized account of the lives of the Mirabal sisters,Dominican revolutionary activists,who opposed the dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo and were assassinated on November 25,1960.
JoséFrancisco Peña Gómez was a politician from the Dominican Republic. He was the leader of the Dominican Revolutionary Party (PRD),a three-time candidate for president of the Dominican Republic and former Mayor of Santo Domingo. He is considered,along with Joaquín Balaguer and Juan Bosch,as one of the most prominent Dominican political figures of the 20th century.
Margarita María Cedeño Lizardo,formerly known as Margarita Cedeño de Fernández,is a Dominican politician who served as Vice President of the Dominican Republic from 2012 to 2020. She was married to former president,Leonel Fernández and served as the First Lady of the Dominican Republic from 2004 to 2012.
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Rafael Francisco Alburquerque de Castro is a Dominican politician who was Vice President of the Dominican Republic from August 2004 to August 2012,serving under President Leonel Fernández. Along with Fernández,he was re-elected in May 2008 for a four-year term. Before he became Vice President,he was Secretary of Labour twice between 1991 and 2000 under Presidents Joaquín Balaguer and during Fernández’s first term.
Presidential elections were held in the Dominican Republic on 20 May 2012. They were the fifth quadrennial elections for the presidency and vice-presidency since 1998,when a change in the electoral law separated the presidential from the congressional and municipal elections.
Minerva Josefina Tavárez Mirabal,known by the Minou,is a philologist,professor and politician from the Dominican Republic. Mrs. Tavárez served as deputy for the National District in the lower House for three terms from 2002 until 2016;served as deputy minister of foreign affairs from 1996 to 2000.
General elections were held in Dominican Republic on 15 May 2016 to elect a president,vice-president and the Congress,as well as 20 deputies to the Central American Parliament,municipal councils,mayors and vice mayors. On 15 May 2015 Roberto Rosario,president of the Central Electoral Board,said that there would be about 4,300 seats up for election in the "most complex elections in history".
Miguel Octavio Vargas Maldonado is a Dominican civil engineer,businessman,and politician. He is the current chairman of the Dominican Revolutionary Party,and former Minister of Foreign Affairs.
The Civic Renovation Party is a political party in the Dominican Republic which was founded in 2006 as the Civic Renovation Movement by Jorge Radhamés Zorrilla Ozuna and a group of social-democratic Dominicans. The party was recognized by the Junta Central Electoral on December 16,2009 and participated in the 2012 presidential elections,supporting Dominican Liberation Party candidate Danilo Medina through the Purple Alliance.
Democratic Choice is a center-left political party founded in 2015 by Minou Tavárez Mirabal and other volunteers in the Dominican Republic.
Maria Milagros Ortiz Bosch is a lawyer,business manager and Dominican politician. She was the first Dominican woman to be vice president of the country,during 2000–2004. She was senator of the Distrito Nacional twice and Secretary of State (Minister) for Education of the Dominican Republic,for the same time period she was vice president (2000-2004).
The People's Force is a political party in the Dominican Republic led by former President Leonel Fernández.
Raquel Peña de Antuña is a Dominican politician and academic who has served as Vice President of the Dominican Republic since 2020.
