Above: Dominican Republic President Danilo Medina departing from San Isidro Air Base (left) (DICOM)
By the Caribbean Journal staff
Dominican Republic President Danilo Medina departed from San Isidro Air Base on Saturday for El Salvador, where he will be on hand for the swearing in of the country’s new President, Salvador Sanchez Ceren, who won the country’s 2014 election.
Medina was leading a delegation to El Salvador that included Administrative Minister Jose Ramon Peralta, Finance Minister Lizardo Mezquita and Interior and Police Minister Jose Ramon Fadul.
Also joining the group were Deputy Foreign Minister Jose MAnuel Trullols, Insurance Superintendent Euclides Gutierrez Felix, Chief of the Presidential Security Corps, Major General Adan Caceres Silvestre and staff assistant to the President Carlos Perez Wall.
Sanchez Ceren was elected in the country’s March 9 election. The official transfer of power was set for Sunday during the closing session of El Salvador’s Legislative Assembly.
He succeeds outgoing President Mauricio Funes, for whom he had served as Vice President since 2009.