Faride Virginia Raful Soriano is a lawyer, politician, and radio and TV presenter from the
Dominican Republic. She is the current senator of the
National District.
She also serves as senate majority leader.
Life and career
Raful was born in
Santo Domingo, to politician and poet
Tony Raful, winner of the 2014 National Prize of Literature, and his wife Grey Soriano.
She studied law at the
Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra; she obtained a master's degree in telecommunications law and information technology at
Charles III University of Madrid
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. She has also studied at the
University of Salamanca and the
University of Andes.
In radio Raful has worked as radio host and producer in ''Sin Tacones Ni Corbatas'' in ''95.7FM La Nota'' and in ''Voces Propias'' of ''Z101.'' In television she worked as a TV host at
NCDN
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This gene encodes a leucine-rich cytoplasmic protein, which is highly similar to a mouse protein norbin that negatively regula ...
.
In the
2010 congressional election Raful was a
Dominican Revolutionary Party candidate for deputy of the National District, but lost. Six years later, she ran again for deputy, this time for the
Modern Revolutionary Party, winning a seat in the lower house of the Dominican Congress.
2020 election
In the
2020 Dominican General Election, Raful was elected as the senator for the National District, beating Rafael Paz of the
Dominican Liberation Party, And Vinicio Castillo of the
Social Christian Reformist Party. She also became the spokeswoman of her party in the
senate
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.
See also
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Tony Raful
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Freddy Ginebra
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Geovanny Vicente
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Nuria Piera
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Miguel Franjul
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Early life and career
Born in Baní, Dominica ...
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Samir Saba
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Milagros Germán
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Pedro Henríquez Ureña
Pedro Henríquez Ureña (June 29, 1884 – May 11, 1946) was a Dominican essayist, philosopher, humanist, philologist and literary critic.
Biography
Early works
Pedro Henríquez Ureña was born in Santo Domingo, the third of four siblings. He ...
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Orlando Martínez Howley
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Tony Dandrades
Tony Dandrades (born June 17, 1968 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic) is a Dominican journalist and television personality who works at the Univision Network. He is currently the entertainment reporter/anchor for the five o'clock news magazin ...
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20th-century Dominican Republic lawyers
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Charles III University of Madrid alumni
Dominican Republic people of Lebanese descent
21st-century Dominican Republic women politicians
21st-century Dominican Republic politicians
Dominican Revolutionary Party politicians
Modern Revolutionary Party politicians
1979 births
Living people
Dominican Republic women lawyers
Members of the Chamber of Deputies of the Dominican Republic
Women members of the Congress of the Dominican Republic
Dominican Republic Roman Catholics
University of the Andes (Venezuela) alumni