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NewsWhore
06-29-2011, 03:00 PM
Minister of Labor Max Puig has announced that he will be leaving his post on 1 July to devote his efforts to a run for the presidency. According to El Nuevo Diario, Max Puig, who is also the leader of the Democratic Alliance Party (APD) said that he has already told President Leonel Fernandez of his decision to leave the cabinet post. He said that a position of this kind required the minister's full attention and could not be shared with other activities.

Puig told reporters that the Democratic Alliance would present the voters with a new option in the May 2012 elections and he pointed out that the party was not going to support the ruling PLD presidential candidate as the party has done in the past two presidential elections.

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