Santo Domingo.- US Congressman-elect AdrianoEspaillat met Monday with president Danilo Medina at the National Palace and alsovisited Congress.
"We wanted to reach out to presidentDanilo Medina, who has always been a friend of the diaspora," saidEspaillat, the first Dominican elected to the US Congress.
"The visit was to share with theGovernment and the Dominican people after a very extensive election effort,"the elected official said, accompanied by US ambassador James Brewster.
Also present were newly for the NY 13thdistrict senator elect Marisol Alcantara; Queens County council member JulissaFerrera and Bronx assemblyman Marcos Crespo.