Federico Augusto Antún Batlle (b.

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, 23 July 1952), nicknamed Quique Antún, is a Dominican politician and

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. Antún is the chairman of the third largest political party in his country, the Social Christian Reformist Party.

Family background and first years

Federico Antún Batlle was born in

on 23 July 1952 to Altagracia Mercedes Batlle Ginebra and Federico Antún Abud. Antún Batlle descends through his mother from the colonial aristocratic families of De la Rocha, De Coca, Landeche and Bastidas, baronets of the and the majorat of Bastidas; his great-great-grandfather, Julián de la Rocha y Cubelge, was cousin of Mercedes de la Rocha, who founded Hato Mayor del Rey in 1888. Antún is also descended from the English King,

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, and the Castilian King

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. His paternal grandparents were Lebanese immigrants.

Politics

From 2005 to 2009, he was the chairman of the Social Christian Reformist Party. On 26 January 2014 he was elected chairman again. On 22 February 2015, he was elected as his party nominee to the 2016 presidential election.

Personal life

He is married to Liliana Milagros Hernández Muñoz and has begotten 3 children: Federico (b. 1978), Frank Augusto (b. 1982), and Jaime Augusto (b. 1984). In 2012, Antún Batlle reported in his affidavit that his net worth is of almost RD$ 40 million.

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