Leonel Antonio Fernández Reyna (born 26 December 1953) is a Dominican lawyer, academic, and has been President of the Dominican Republic since 2004; his term expires in 2012. He held the same office from 1996 to 2000.
Fernández became the first elected president of the Dominican Republic under his political party, the Dominican Liberation Party ("Partido de la Liberación Dominicana" in Spanish, PLD), although party founder Juan Bosch was also swo...
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Leonel Antonio Fernández Reyna (born 26 December 1953) is a Dominican lawyer, academic, and has been President of the Dominican Republic since 2004; his term expires in 2012. He held the same office from 1996 to 2000.
Fernández became the first elected president of the Dominican Republic under his political party, the Dominican Liberation Party ("Partido de la Liberación Dominicana" in Spanish, PLD), although party founder Juan Bosch was also sworn in as president in 1963 after the first democratic elections held in roughly four decades in the country. Fernández's administrations have focused much on technological and infrastructural development and macroeconomic and monetary stability (no hyperinflationary crisis has occurred under Fernández and PLD administrations).
He is a native of Villa Juana, Distrito Nacional and lived for much of his childhood and early adulthood in New York City.
Fernandez is the son of José Antonio Fernández Collado and Yolanda Reyna Romero. His family moved...
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