José Ignacio Paliza

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

José Ignacio Paliza
The Most Excellent
(Spanish: Excelentísimo Señor)
Administrative Minister of the Presidency
Incumbent
Assumed office
16 August 2020
PresidentLuis Abinader
DeputyVice ministers:
  • Dilia Leticia Jorge Mera (2020–present)
  • Juan Garrigó Mejía (2020–present)
  • Andrés Alberto Lugo Risk (2020–present)
  • Igor David Rodríguez Durán (2020–present)
  • José Gabriel Jáquez Vásquez (2020–present)
  • Víctor D’Aza Tineo (2020–2021)
  • Osval Antonio Saldivar Mota (2021–present)
Preceded byJosé Ramón Peralta
President and Chairman of the
Modern Revolutionary Party
Incumbent
Assumed office
14 June 2018[1]
Preceded byAndrés Bautista García [es]
Senator for the province of Puerto Plata
In office
16 August 2016 – 16 August 2020
Preceded byFrancis Vargas
(Dominican Liberation's Party)
Succeeded byGinette Bournigal
(Modern Revolutionary Party)
Deputy for Puerto Plata
In office
16 August 2010 – 16 August 2016
Serving with Félix Antonio Castillo Rodríguez (PLD), Francisco Javier Clark Vásquez (PLD), Graciela Fermín Nuesi (PRD), Juan Carlos Quiñones Minaya (PLD), Pedro Alejandro Aguirre Hernández (PRD)
MajorityDominican Liberation's Party (PLD)
Personal details
Born (1981-09-01) 1 September 1981 (age 43)
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
CitizenshipDominican (1981–present)
Spanish (1981–2010)
Political partyModern Revolutionary Party (2014–present)
Dominican Revolutionary Party (until 2014)
SpouseIsabel Lucía Brugal Portela
Net worth
Fortune by year
  • RD$ −4.73 million (2010)[2] (US$ −128,000)
  • Increase RD$ 13.38 million (2016)[3] (US$ 291,000)
  • Increase RD$ 23.08 million (2020)[4] (US$ 395,000)
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José Ignacio Ramón Paliza Nouel (born Santo Domingo, 1 September 1981) is a politician and lawyer from the Dominican Republic. He is the President and Chairman of the Modern Revolutionary Party since 14 June 2018, and Administrative Minister of the Presidency since 16 August 2020. He was senator representing the province of Puerto Plata for the 2016–2020 period.

Early life and family

Paliza Nouel is the son of businessman and honorary consul of Spain in Puerto Plata, Juan Ignacio Paliza García,[5] and nephew of entrepreneurs José Manuel Paliza and Elena Viyella de Paliza. His grandfather Benito Paliza Torre was a Spanish immigrant who was dedicated to work in the coffee industry upon his arrival to the Dominican Republic.[6]

His mother, Grace Malvina Nouel, was born in Miami, Florida, during the period her father was Consul appointed by the dictator Rafael Trujillo for his particular adherence to him; she is the daughter of José María Nouel Simpson (son of lawyer and minister of the Interior José María Nouel Bobadilla, son of historian, lawyer and legislator Carlos Rafael Nouel Pierret and brother of archbishop and president of the Dominican Republic Adolfo Alejandro Nouel Bobadilla, and Grace Simpson Neumann, the daughter of Thomas Simpson, the United States consul in Puerto Plata from 1884 to 1905), and Ligia Malvina Henríquez Mon. On his mother's side, he descends from President Tomás Bobadilla, the first ruler of the Dominican Republic; Paliza Nouel is great-grandnephew of monsignor Adolfo Alejandro Nouel.

In 2003, he earned a doctorate in law (magna cum laude), at Universidad Iberoamericana (UNIBE); he studied International Studies of Law, Business and Public Policy, and Public Finance Management, at Georgetown, Pennsylvania and Harvard, respectively..[7]

Ancestry

Paliza's maternal family was a notable elite family in the Dominican Republic. His ancestors includes Presidents, Senators, Ministers and Consuls.[8]

Politics

He was elected with just 28 years as a deputy to the 2010–2016 legislature, and was the youngest member of the Congress of the Dominican Republic.[7]

In his 2010 sworn statement of assets, Paliza stated that he had a negative equity, as he owed RD$ 5 million (US$ 135,000) to his father (who died in 2014).[2] In 2016 he reported to have RD$ 13.38 million (US$ 291,000) in assets.[3] In 2020, Paliza's net worth rose to RD$ 23.08 million (US$ 395,000).[4]

In August 2014, along with more than thirty deputies defectors he entered into the Modern Revolutionary Party (PRM), following a split in the Dominican Revolutionary Party (PRD).[9]

Paliza was elected President and Chairman of the Modern Revolutionary Party in the primary elections held on 18 March 2018, he took office on 14 June 2018.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b Campos, Niza (14 June 2018). "José Ignacio Paliza y Carolina Mejía asumen presidencia y secretaría general del PRM" (in Spanish). Santo Domingo: Diario Libre. Retrieved 14 June 2018.
  2. ^ a b OLIVO GONELL, César Emilio (9 August 2010). "José Ignacio Paliza Nouel". Declaración jurada de bienes (in Spanish). Cámara de Diputados de la República Dominicana. Exchange rate: 37.0025 per USD. Archived from the original on 16 August 2016. Retrieved 9 August 2014.
  3. ^ a b "Declaración Jurada de Patrimonio (Ley 311-14): José Ignacio Ramón Paliza Nouel" (PDF). Senate of the Dominican Republic (in Spanish). 6 September 2016. Exchange rate: 46.0524 per USD. Retrieved 15 February 2018.
  4. ^ a b De la Cruz, Irmgard (6 April 2021). "¿Cuáles ministros del gobierno dominicano poseen los mayores patrimonios?" (in Spanish). El Dinero. Exchange rate: 58.4 per USD.
  5. ^ GILBERT, Manuel (24 August 2007). "Consulado español abre nueva sede" (in Spanish). Gran Parada, Montellano: Listín Diario. Retrieved 9 August 2014.
  6. ^ MÁRMOL, Natalia. "Paliza considera que sentencia del TC no convierte en apátridas a hijos de haitianos" (in Spanish). 7 días. Archived from the original on 12 August 2014. Retrieved 9 August 2014.
  7. ^ a b "José Ignacio Paliza Nouel" (in Spanish). Cámara de Diputados de la República Dominicana. Archived from the original on 15 March 2013. Retrieved 9 August 2014.
  8. ^ Prieto, Luis José Américo (1992). Arzobispo Adolfo Alejandro Nouel y Bobadilla y su familia. Santo Domingo: Instituto Dominicano de Genealogía. ISBN 9780001993617.
  9. ^ "Casi medio bloque de diputados del PRD se va al PRM y eligen a Nelson Arroyo como vocero". Diario Libre. 4 August 2014. Retrieved 9 August 2014.