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Leonel Fernández

1953 - Today

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Leonel Antonio Fernández Reyna () (born 26 December 1953) is a Dominican lawyer, academic, and was the 50th and 52nd President of the Dominican Republic from 1996 to 2000 and from 2004 to 2012. From 2016 until 2020, he was the President of the EU–LAC Foundation. Fernández became the first elected president of the Dominican Republic under his political party, the Dominican Liberation Party (Partido de la Liberación Dominicana, or PLD), although party founder Juan Bosch was also sworn in as president in 1963 after the first democratic elections held in roughly four decades in the country. Fernández's administrations have focused much on technological and infrastructural development and macroeconomic and monetary stability. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Leonel Fernández is the 10,015th most popular politician (up from 10,180th in 2019), the 10th most popular biography from Dominican Republic and the 6th most popular Dominican Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Leonel Fernández ranks 10,015 out of 19,576. Before him are Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy, Al-Muwaffaq, Kashta, Keisai Eisen, Federica Mogherini, and Spurius Lucretius Tricipitinus. After him are Lazar Mojsov, Nahum Sokolow, Sergei Kruglov, Ali ibn Muhammad, Masaniello, and Ashikaga Yoshiakira.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1953, Leonel Fernández ranks 157. Before him are Tico Torres, Gil Birmingham, Annemarie Moser-Pröll, Robert Wisdom, Periko Alonso, and Robert Davi. After him are Arielle Dombasle, Kumba Ialá, Chaka Khan, Agathe Uwilingiyimana, Dave Evans, and José Costa.

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In Dominican Republic

Among people born in Dominican Republic, Leonel Fernández ranks 10 out of 51. Before him are Oscar de la Renta (1932), Hatuey (1478), Juan Pablo Duarte (1813), Maria Montez (1912), Nicolás de Jesús López Rodríguez (1936), and Danilo Medina (1951). After him are Máximo Gómez (1836), Héctor Trujillo (1908), Juan Bosch (1909), Luis Abinader (1967), Salvador Jorge Blanco (1926), and Juan Luis Guerra (1957).

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Among POLITICIANS In Dominican Republic

Among politicians born in Dominican Republic, Leonel Fernández ranks 6. Before him are Rafael Trujillo (1891), Joaquín Balaguer (1906), Hatuey (1478), Juan Pablo Duarte (1813), and Danilo Medina (1951). After him are Héctor Trujillo (1908), Juan Bosch (1909), Luis Abinader (1967), Salvador Jorge Blanco (1926), Hipólito Mejía (1941), and Ulises Heureaux (1845).

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