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Article: LEONEL FERNANDEZ BACK FOR ANOTHER DOMINICAN REPUBLIC PRESIDENCY.
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- NotiCen: Central American & Caribbean Affairs
- Article date:
- May 20, 2004
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Leonel Fernandez, president of the Dominican Republic from 1996 to 2000, is back. He won the May 16 elections handily against President Hipolito Mejia, who was seeking re-election, and against Eduardo Estrella. Although the official tally is not yet certified, Fernandez has clearly obtained more than an absolute majority, obviating a second round.
The president-elect is known as a market-friendly, privatization-oriented, inflation-phobic, fiscally disciplined individual who drew criticism for having left the poor behind when he presided over an economy that mushroomed at 8%, with the peso at 16 to the US dollar.
But now, with the economy in tatters ...