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Funeral services for Morales will be at the Presidential Palace and the Cathedral

At 10 o'clock this morning the remains will be taken to the Presidential Palace

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Funeral services for Morales will be at the Presidential Palace and the Cathedral
SANTO DOMINGO. The remains of the former Vice President of the Republic and former Chancellor, Carlos Morales Troncoso, will be taken today at 10 o'clock in the morning to the Presidential Palace to receive the honors according to the position which he held.

The Social Christian Reformist Party (PR SC) reported that at noon today, the remains of the politician, who died last Saturday in Houston, Texas a year after being diagnosed with leukemia, will be transferred to the First Cathedral of America, where a funeral mass will be held and later he will be buried at the Puerta del Cielo Cemetery.

The PR SC president, Federico Antun Batlle, appointed a commission that will take part in the funeral activities.

The commission will be headed by Antun himself and includes in addition Senators Amable Aristy Castro from La Altagracia, and Felix Vasquez, from Sanchez Ramirez; the Secretary general and deputy, Ramon Rogelio Genao; deputy Victor -Ito - Bisono; the former senator José Hazim Frappier; and the secretaries of Organization, Miguel Bogaert; Finances, Marino Collante and Electoral Affairs, Maximo Castro Silverio.

Joaquin Ricardo, the former interim party President and member of the Presidential Directory, the maximum leadership organ of the PR SC, will also attend.

Equally, the members of the commission will be present in the afternoon at the Puerta del Cielo Cemetery where the remains of the Reformist leader will receive a Christian burial.

Morales died at the age of 74; he was Vice President of the Republic between 1986 and 1990 and between 1990 and 1994.

He was Chancellor from 1994 until 1996, in the last administration of Joaquin Balaguer. He also occupied this position in the last two administrations of Leonel Fernandez and for half of the administration of Danilo Medina, from 2004 until 2014.