Eduardo Estrella

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Eduardo Estrella
Official portrait, 2020
President of the Senate of the Dominican Republic
Incumbent
Assumed office August 16, 2020
Preceded by	Reinaldo Pared Pérez
Member of the Dominican Republic Senate from Santiago Province
Incumbent
Assumed office August 16, 2020
Preceded by	Julio César Valentín
In office August 16, 1994 – August 16, 1998
Succeeded by	José Rafael Abinader
Secretary of State for Public Works and Communications
In office 1991–1994
President	Joaquín Balaguer
Executive Director of the National Institute of Water and Sewage
In office 1990–1991
President	Joaquín Balaguer
Under Secretary of State for Public Works and Communications
In office 1986–1990
President	Joaquín Balaguer
Secretary of Second Class in the Dominican Embassy in Mexico
In office 1972–1975
President of Dominicanos por el Cambio party
In office January 10, 2010 – February 07, 2018
Personal details
Born	(1953-06-05) 5 June 1953 (age 71) Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Nationality	Dominican
Political party	Partido Dominicanos por el Cambio
Spouse	Arelis Cruz de Estrella
Children	Paula, Mabel and Eduardo Guarionex
Residence(s)	Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic
Alma mater	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México UNAM
Occupation	Politician, Civil Engineer
Website	www.eduardoestrella.com.do

Rafael Eduardo Estrella Virella (born June 5, 1953) is a civil engineer and Dominican politician, former senator and president of the Senate of the Dominican Republic from 2020 to 2023.^[1] He served as Minister (formerly "Secretary of State") for Public Works and Communications of the Dominican Republic during the second term 1991–94, of President Joaquín Balaguer and also he has served as senator for Santiago from 1994 to 1998, and has been serving again since 2020.^[2]

He was the first presidential candidate of the Social Christian Reformist Party after the death of its leader, Dr. Joaquín Balaguer, after being elected in March 2003 as a presidential candidate of that organization. In 2007 he resigned from that organization to build a new party, since Social Christian Reformist Party was attached to the former government of Dominican Liberation Party and what he firmly opposed during the years, thus forming the Dominicans for Change Party, which controlled the presidency from 2004 to 2020. In August 2020, the current ruling government of the Modern Revolutionary Party (PRM) agreed to choose Estrella as Dominican Republic Senate President.^[3]