Luis Abinader

Luis Abinader
Abinader in 2024
54th President of the Dominican Republic
Assumed office
16 August 2020
Vice PresidentRaquel Peña
Preceded byDanilo Medina
Personal details
Born
Luis Rodolfo Abinader Corona

(1967-07-12) 12 July 1967 (age 57)
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Political partyModern Revolutionary Party (2014-present)
Other political
affiliations
Dominican Social Alliance Party (1985-2014)
Spouse
(m. 1995)
Children3
Parents
Alma materHult International Business School
Instituto Tecnológico de Santo Domingo

Luis Rodolfo Abinader Corona (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈlwis roˈðolfo aβinaˈðeɾ koˈɾona]; born 12 July 1967) is a Dominican economist, businessman, and politician who has served as the 54th president of the Dominican Republic since 2020. He was the Modern Revolutionary Party candidate for President of the Dominican Republic in the 2016, 2020, and 2024 general elections.

Before becoming president, Abinader was the general manager of Grupo Abicor, a business consortium started by his father, José Rafael Abinader, a former senator and finance minister. Grupo Abicor includes a real estate and construction company focused mainly on the tourism industry, a cement factory, and a private university. As revealed by the Pandora Papers, Abinader also owns several offshore companies.[1] Abinader was proclaimed as Latin America's richest president by Bloomberg Línea in 2022.[2]

His first 100 days in office, in a context of mitigation of the Covid-19 pandemic, were rated positively by some sectors of society such as social and business actors, who positively valued the measures adopted during the health crisis.[3] In the international arena, he has been participating in regional forums and discussions with think tanks in the capital of the United States, such as the Council of the Americas and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.[4][5] In November 2020, during a high-level discussion he had with CNN columnist political strategist Geovanny Vicente at the DC Dialogues at New York University, he reviewed the achievements made in his first 100 days in office and noted that the Dominican Republic, in addition to being the fastest growing economy in Latin America, is also ready to receive investments.[6]

Abinader was re-elected to a second term as president in the 2024 Dominican Republic general election. In his victory speech, Abinader said that the "changes that we've made are going to be irreversible", and that the "best is yet to come".[7]

  1. ^ "Power Players - ICIJ". 2 October 2021. Archived from the original on 4 October 2021. Retrieved 26 February 2022.
  2. ^ "Luis Abinader, el presidente más rico de América Latina". 27 June 2022. Archived from the original on 22 October 2023. Retrieved 20 October 2023.
  3. ^ "Abinader saca "buenas notas" en sus primeros cien días de gobierno". 22 November 2020.
  4. ^ "#2020WCA: Luis Abinader, President of the Dominican Republic | AS/COA". 7 October 2020.
  5. ^ "A Conversation with President Luis Abinader of the Dominican Republic | Wilson Center". 30 October 2020.
  6. ^ "Presidente Luis Abinader comparte su visión de cambio para República Dominicana". 29 November 2020.
  7. ^ "Dominican Republic President Luis Abinader heads to reelection as competitors concede early". Associated Press. 20 May 2024. Archived from the original on 20 May 2024. Retrieved 20 May 2024.

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