Pictured King Juan Carlos of Spain and President Danilo Medina, Dominican Republic,by Spanish Royal Household.
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic: The Caribbean state’s 53rd president, Danilo Medina Sánchez, was inaugurated on 16 August 2016 after having won the presidential (re)election on 15 May 2016.
President Medina Sánchez is a scion of one the country’s founding fathers, namely Francisco del Rosario Sánchez. He is president since winning the presidential election of 2012 for his first four years term running for the Dominican Liberation Party (Partido de la Liberación Dominicana /P LD).
Amongst the plenty of attending dignitaries at the presidential inauguration were Spain’s King Juan Carlos, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, Ecuador’s President Rafael Correa or Bolivia’s President Evo Morales.
For further information:
Presidency of the Dominican Republic: https://presidencia.gob.do
