Santo Domingo.- The Presidency’s Chief of Staff revealed yesterday that as part of the plan to modernize and reform the government, to a project to fuse ministries and eliminate deputy ministries is in its final stages.

Cesar Pina Toribio said his Department coordinates a commission that includes the Public Administration Ministry and the Legal Adviser, instructed to elaborate the first draft for the Law to Reform Public Administration.

He said the commission would adapt the project to the Constitution, and has already converted the Secretariats to Ministries.

Pina affirmed that the structure of ministries would automatically eliminate several deputy ministries and agencies within them. “That’s going to lower the number of ministries as well as deputy ministries, even though the same assume functions that corresponded to other agencies.”

He said those ministries aim to eliminate some agencies. “I dare to say, however, that the possibility exists at the high level of fusing some ministries, but I again reiterate that it is not a definitive decision.”

Pina spoke with reporters in the Las Americas International Airport, before traveling to Lisbon to attend the Latin American Conference of Presidential Ministers.