Luis Abinader

Abinader is running for election in the 2020 cycle. Rudy Giuliani and John Huvane are again advising Abinader in the campaign as security consultants.

He was the presidential candidate of the Dominican Humanist Party and the Modern Revolutionary Party for the past general elections on 15 May 2016.

Abinader was, along with Soraya Aquino, one of the two presidential candidates in 2016 who had not been born during the dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo (1930-1961). Had he reached the presidency, Abinader would have been the first Dominican president born after the Trujillo dictatorship, and the first elected president to have not lived during the dictatorship since Ramón Cáceres, assassinated in 1911. Giuliani Partners, specifically Rudy Giuliani and John Huvane, advised Abinader in the campaign as security consultants.

Abinader was the vice presidential candidate of the Dominican Revolutionary Party in the 2012 election and in 2005 was pre candidate for senator from the province of Santo Domingo.

He was elected vice president of the Dominican Revolutionary Party in its 2005 National Convention.

Luis Rodolfo Abinader Corona (born 12 July 1967) is an economist and politician from the Dominican Republic, who served as the Modern Revolutionary Party candidate for President of the Dominican Republic in the 2016 and 2020 general elections. He is the son of Senator José Rafael Abinader.

Abinader was born 12 July 1967, to José Rafael Abinader Wassaf, politician and entrepreneur of Lebanese origin, and Rosa Sula Corona Caba, a white Dominican of Canarian colonial stock.