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Weekly Report - 20 August 2020 (WR-20-33)
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Abinader assumes power promising to clean up politics
Luis Abinader was sworn-in as president on 16 August, formally ending 16 years of governance by the Partido de la Liberación Dominicana (PLD), the longest uninterrupted stretch any single party has wielded power in the Dominican Republic since the assassination of the country’s long-ruling dictator Rafael Trujillo in 1961. Abinader, who belongs to the Partido Revolucionario Moderno (PRM), which has never before exercised power, promised to adopt an unflinching stance on corruption and nurse the economy back to health in the face of the ravages of the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic.
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