Biografia presidente leonel fernandez reyna biography

President of the Dominican Republic (1996–2000; 2004–2012)

For the Guatemalan Olympic sport shooter, see Leonel Fernández (sport shooter).

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Fernández and the second or maternal family name is Reyna.

Leonel Antonio Fernández Reyna (Pronunciation of "Leonel Fernández"^ⓘ) (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.^[1]

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