Eduardo Estrella

Rafael Eduardo Estrella Virella (born June 5, 1953) is a civil engineer and Dominican politician, former senator and president of the Senate of the Dominican Republic from 2020 to 2023. He served as Minister (formerly "Secretary of State") for Public Works and Communications of the Dominican Republic during the second term 1991–94, of President Joaquín Balaguer and also he has served as senator for Santiago from 1994 to 1998, and has been serving again since 2020-2024.

He was the first presidential candidate of the Social Christian Reformist Party after the death of its leader, Dr. Joaquín Balaguer, after being elected in March 2003 as a presidential candidate of that organization. In 2007 he resigned from that organization to build a new party, since Social Christian Reformist Party was attached to the former government of Dominican Liberation Party and what he firmly opposed during the years, thus forming the Dominicans for Change Party, which controlled the presidency from 2004 to 2020. In August 2020, the current ruling government of the Modern Revolutionary Party (PRM) agreed to choose Estrella as Dominican Republic Senate President. Provided by Wikipedia