Reinaldo de las Mercedes Pared Pérez (25 September 1956 – 29 October 2021) was a Dominican politician. He represented

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from 1998 to 2002, and served in the

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since 2006. Pared Pérez was president of the senate twice, between 2006 and 2014, and again between 2016 and 2020. A member of the

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, he was named general-secretary in 2001. The government of the

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awarded Pared Pérez the

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Special Grand Cordon in June 2017. The former secretary general of the Dominican Liberation Party, Reinaldo Pared Pérez, died this Thursday night in what appears to be a suicide. Pérez was suffering from episodes of depression as a result of health problems caused by a cancer that was detected two years ago and for which he was undergoing treatment. Pérez died by a suspected suicide on 29 October 2021, at the age of 65 in a summer residence in Juan Dolio, where he spent most of his time after the illness.

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