{"id":134423,"date":"2026-08-17T14:42:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T18:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/lawmakers-debate-changes-to-abinaders-cabinet-and-ask-for-more\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T14:42:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T18:42:09","slug":"lawmakers-debate-changes-to-abinaders-cabinet-and-ask-for-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/national\/lawmakers-debate-changes-to-abinaders-cabinet-and-ask-for-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawmakers debate changes to Abinader&#8217;s cabinet and ask for more"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Political reactions following the recent changes in President Abinader&#8217;s cabinet<\/h2>\n\n<p>Following the recent moves made by President Luis Abinader in various state institutions, the Dominican political landscape has been marked by intense debate. While opposition parties criticize the nature of these appointments, the ruling party defends the measure and advocates for greater integration of its base into public management.<\/p>\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Perspective from the opposition<\/h3>\n\n<p>Opposition voices have described the adjustments as a simple rotation of personnel rather than a deep restructuring. Fuerza del Pueblo deputy, Jos\u00e9 David B\u00e1ez, interpreted these moves as a tacit admission of inefficiency by the current administration.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">In our view, these changes made by the Dominican Government are a mea culpa that the officials of this Government have not been carrying out their duties as they should.<\/p>\n<cite>Jos\u00e9 David B\u00e1ez, deputy of the Fuerza del Pueblo<\/cite>\n\n\n<p>For his part, Gustavo S\u00e1nchez, a legislator from the Dominican Liberation Party (PLD), considered that the president has fallen short of expectations. S\u00e1nchez specifically questioned the effectiveness of the changes in the electricity sector and maintained his criticisms regarding the tenure of figures such as the Minister of Interior and Police, Faride Raful. In contrast, Charlie Mariotti Paz, also from the PLD, expressed moderate optimism regarding the appointment of Juan Manuel M\u00e9ndez to lead Intrant, although he warned that mobility challenges will not be resolved immediately.<\/p>\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The ruling party&#8217;s position<\/h3>\n\n<p>From the Modern Revolutionary Party (PRM), deputy Ram\u00f3n Bueno supported the head of state&#8217;s decisions, stressing that it is a necessary presidential power to revitalize the state apparatus. However, he emphasized a constant request from the party&#8217;s grassroots:<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">We need the party to feel represented in the management.<\/p>\n<cite>Ram\u00f3n Bueno, PRM deputy<\/cite>\n\n\n<p>In this same vein, Senator Dagoberto Rodr\u00edguez positively assessed the renewal of leadership, noting that the arrival of new officials brings fresh ideas and opportunities for improvement to the institutions.<\/p>\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Main designations for August 16th<\/h3>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>V\u00edctor &#8220;Ito&#8221; Bison\u00f3: Minister of Foreign Affairs.<\/li><li>Jean Luis Rodr\u00edguez: Minister of Housing, Habitat and Buildings.<\/li><li>Juan Manuel M\u00e9ndez Garc\u00eda: Directorate of Intrant.<\/li><li>Erdwin Robert Olivares Luciano: Directorate of the Emergency Operations Center (COE).<\/li><li>Carlos Manuel Paulino C\u00e1rdenas: Directorate of Civil Defense.<\/li><li>Joel Santos: President of the CUED and coordinator of the Energy Cabinet, in addition to his role in Energy and Mines.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n<p>This restructuring, which occurs halfway through President Abinader&#8217;s second term, tests the Government&#8217;s responsiveness to critical citizen demands such as electricity service and traffic congestion, issues that will remain under the scrutiny of Alofoke Deportes.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Political reactions following the recent changes in President Abinader&#8217;s cabinet Following the recent moves made by President Luis Abinader in various state institutions, the Dominican political landscape has been marked by intense debate. While opposition parties criticize the nature of these appointments, the ruling party defends the measure and advocates for greater integration of its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":134424,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12809],"tags":[4766,12872,5043,6345],"class_list":{"0":"post-134423","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-national","8":"tag-abinader","9":"tag-government","10":"tag-legislators","11":"tag-officials"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}