Pedro Alegría Explained

Pedro Alegría
Office:Senator for the province of San José de Ocoa
Term Start:16 August 2016
Term End:16 August 2020
Predecessor:Carlos Castillo
(Dominican Liberation’s Party)
Successor:José Antonio Castillo Casado
(Modern Revolutionary Party)
Term Start2:16 August 2002
Term End2:16 August 2010
Predecessor2:Office established
Successor2:Carlos Castillo (PLD)
Birth Date:24 September 1951
Birth Place:San José de Ocoa, Dominican Republic
Party:Institutional Social Democratic Bloc (201?–present)
Otherparty:Dominican Revolutionary Party (1976–201?)
Mother:Mercedes Nidia Soto Martínez[1]
Father:Rafael Antonio Alegría Domínguez[2]
Spouse:Eva Gómez Espinal
Children:5 children, including actress Dalisa Alegría
Profession:Businessman
Blank1:Ethnicity
Data1:White Dominican
Blank2:Net worth
Data2: RD$ 511.46 million (2016)[3]

Pedro José Alegría Soto (born 24 September 1951) is a businessman and politician from the Dominican Republic. He was Senator for the province of San José de Ocoa and was elected in 2002, and re-elected in 2006; he has also been President of Lotería Electrónica Internacional Dominicana, S.A. (LEIDSA) —the largest private Dominican lottery— since its foundation in 1997.[4]

Alegría has a Bachelor of Business Administration.[4]

Pedro Alegría became the first senator elected from the Institutional Social Democratic Bloc after the 2016 general election.[5]

Notes and References

  1. News: Presidente Danilo Medina lamenta muerte de madre de Pedro Alegría. 23 August 2014. El Caribe. 21 August 2014. Spanish.
  2. http://www.senado.gob.do/senado/portals/0/documentos/oai/DeclaracionesJuradas/DeclaracionesJuradas2016-2020/Pedro%20Alegria%20-%20San%20Jose%20de%20Ocoa.pdf Senado República Dominicana
  3. Web site: Mitad de senadores presentaron incremento en su patrimonio de hasta un 177 % en seis años . 23 June 2017 . 23 June 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170623130944/http://acento.com.do/2017/economia/8467790-mitad-senadores-presentaron-incremento-patrimonio-177/ . dead .
  4. Web site: Pedro José Alegría Soto, Senador de la República por la Provincia San José de Ocoa, PRD. . 23 August 2014 . Spanish . Senate of the Dominican Republic.
  5. News: De León. Degnis. PLD retiene la Presidencia y se impone en el Congreso Nacional. 17 May 2016. El Día. 17 May 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160517212007/http://eldia.com.do/519230-2/. 17 May 2016. Santo Domingo. Spanish.