Danilo Medina closes cycle of INTEC dialogues with candidates for the presidency
Santo Domingo. Danilo Medina, candidate for the presidency of the Dominican Liberation Party (PLD), closed on Wednesday, February 15 the three-day series of “INTEC Dialogues with presidential candidates 2012” organized by the Instituto Tecnológico de Santo Domingo (INTEC).
This third and last meeting with the academic community took place in the Sala Julio Ravelo de la Fuente, and had a simultaneous transmission at the Osvaldo García de la Cocha Auditorium of the academic institution.
The dialogue brought together managers, students, teachers and guests who raised their concerns about their government proposal, in case of winning the next presidential election in the country, the 20 of May this year.
During his participation, Medina said that within his government plans is to ensure the insertion of young people into the labor market and said that for this, it has been proposed to create the right conditions, starting from education: "We will work directly with the preparation of Teachers, who will be certified to ensure that their preparation and mastery is appropriate for the correct transfer of knowledge "he stressed.
He also said that if he were to occupy the presidential chair of the Dominican Republic, he would eliminate the country's illiteracy during his first two years in office.
The candidate for the PLD also proposes a curricular change in the universities. "The design of curricula of our houses of higher education, should be according to the needs of companies. It is a job that must be done jointly company-university, only then will universities deliver to society what companies are in need in their workplace.
For its part, the rector of INTEC, Rolando M. Guzman, said that in these first meetings have participated the candidates for the presidency of the parties that won the most votes in the last presidential elections of 2008 and that to date had held their primary .
"INTEC, which this year arrives at its 40 anniversary, seeks the critical insertion of its academic work in the Dominican reality. Thus, we have opened these spaces to give our community the opportunity to talk with a leadership that, although it has not yet had the opportunity of the full exercise of power, can provide important insights into the current Dominican reality, "said Guzmán.
The "INTEC Dialogues with 2012 Presidential Candidates" began on Wednesday 8 in February with the participation of Hipólito Mejía, of the Dominican Revolutionary Party (PRD), and continued in a second meeting with Max Puig, candidate for the Democratic Alliance Party ( APD), Monday 13.
For the general public, national and international, each of the dialogues was broadcast live through www.livestream.com/intec.
Profile of Danilo Medina
The 10 was born in November of the 1951, in Arroyo Cano, San Juan de la Maguana. He completed his primary and intermediate studies at the Francisco del Rosario Sánchez Public School (1957) and completed secondary school at the Liceo Pedro Henríquez Ureña, municipality of San Juan de la Maguana where he graduated from Bachelor of Business Sciences with the honor of "Best Student "
He studied Chemical Engineering at the UASD and subsequently Economics at Instituto Tecnológico de Santo Domingo (INTEC), where he graduated with honors Magna Cum Laude, 1984.
Married from 1987 with Cándida Montilla de Medina, with whom he procreated his three daughters - Sibely (Cum Laude in Economics PUCMM and Finance at the Rochester Institute of Technology), Vanessa (law completion student) and Ana Paula (medical student) .
Medina was elected deputy to the Congress of the Republic, in the years 1986, 1990 and 1994. During the constitutional period, 90-94 was a spokesman for the PLD bloc and chairman of the Committee on Social and Provisional Affairs of the Latin American Parliament (PARLATINO), which is based in Brazil. In the 1994 legislature, he was elected president of the Chamber of Deputies.
He has twice been Secretary of State for the Presidency (1996-2000 and 2004-2006), coordinating the actions of government agencies and the proper functioning of the public administration, autonomous institutions and other decentralized entities of the State.
His political life began in 1973 with the PLD, along with his colleagues from the Democratic Socialist University Front (FUSD), supporting Professor Juan Bosch and his project to found the Party. He was among the most advanced and in 1974 he actively participated in the Foundation of the Student Liberation Front (FEL), the new student organization that promoted the political orientations of Juan Bosch.
Since then, he has gone through all the stages of the organization and has served in multiple roles: vice-secretary of Organization, member of the Central Committee and member of the Political Committee. He has also been selected as Campaign Leader for the 1994 elections, the last in which Prof. Juan Bosch participated as a candidate for the Presidency of the Republic, and later for the 1996 elections, which culminated in the electoral triumph of Dr. Leonel Fernández Reyna.
In the 2004 elections he was the Strategy Director and Campaign Advisor of the Candidate for the Presidency of the Dominican Republic, Dr. Leonel Fernández Reyna, who was elected President for the 2004-2008 period.
He is currently a presidential candidate for the PLD, with a view to the electoral contest of 2012.