Santo Domingo.- The death of the former diplomat and judge of the Constitutional Court (TC), Víctor Gómez Bergés, at 83 years of age, for reasons still unknown, was confirmed this morning.
The news was released by his son, Victor Gomez Casanovathrough a publication on social networks, the same through which he announced that funeral services will not take place.
“I feel that my heart has left me and that I will have to learn to live without you. I LOVE YOU DAD! Victor Gomez Berges, (1940-2023). Thank you GOD for the honor and privilege of having awarded me as his son, bear his name and allow him 83 years of life, ”he wrote.
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Regarding the political life of Víctor Gómez Bergés
In 1970 he was appointed Secretary of State for Education, Fine Arts and Cults, two years later becoming Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and the youngest Chancellor in the entire history of the Dominican Republic.
In 1976 he was appointed Secretary of State Without Portfolio. In 1977 he was appointed Secretary of State for Finance (now the Ministry of Finance) and in 1978 as Secretary of State for Industry and Commerce.
At the end of 1978 he assumed the Senate of Puerto Plata and was the Spokesman of the Majority Bloc of the Senate until 1982. In 1983 he fell out with Balaguer and the then President Salvador Jorge Blanco appointed him as Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of the Dominican Republic in the Vatican. before the Holy See, before Pope John Paul II and concurrently in Greece and Cyprus.
Around 1988, President Balaguer appointed him as Member of the Board of Directors of the Dominican Electricity Corporation (CDE) and later as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the DR in Argentina and concurrent in Paraguay.
As a writer, his intellectual work has 11 titles.