Mateo Aquino Febrillet

Febrillet promoted of the agreement between the PRD and the PRM to join all the opposition political forces that ensured the victory in the 2016 elections, both at the level of the presidency and vice-presidency, and at the congressional and municipal level, of its country.

Mateo Aquino Febrillet, died as a result of gunshot wounds the afternoon of March 11, 2016, while mediated in a discussion among the candidates for deputies by the Modern Revolutionary Party, Blas Peralta and Edward Montás.

On April 22, 2016, family members, friends and colleagues of Mateo Aquino Febrillet, acknowledged his contribution to the academy and the Dominican society with a banner unveiled in his honor next to the Ceiba tree that the late academic had planted in April 2011.

In 2015 for the first time the proposal is presented so that the teacher Mateo Aquino Febrillet opts for an elective political position. It is the initiative of a group of citizens from different sectors and social strata, who, aware of the situation, decided to form the Support Movement to Senator Febrillet, (MASFE), to elect him as Senator of the Republic for the period 2016– 2020.

In the elections held in February 2011, he was elected to the position of the Rector Magnificent of the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo, which he occupied until February 28, 2014.

In addition to the activities mentioned above, he was the president of the Academic World Foundation and producer of the television program that carried the same name, which was edited before he became Rector of the UASD, and was relaunched when he left office In 2014, he was also the producer and driver along with a team of young San Cristobalenses, from the program "La Voz de San Cristobal", which was broadcast every Sunday from August 17, 2014.

During his tenure, Aquino Febrillet planted a tree of Ceiba pentandra in 2011 and at that time said: "When I die, I want my ashes to be scattered at the foot of this tree."

By election, he was chosen as administrative vice-rector, a position that exerted with success in the period 1999–2002.

His first wife was Lic. Dilcia Lapaix with whom he had his first and only daughter Jessica Aquino Lapaix, who gave him two grandchildren, Enrique Pena Aquino and Nicole Pena Aquino. Mateo Aquino Febrillet and Dilcia Lapaix got divorced in 1988.

In the political sphere, he is recognized as a member of the Dominican Revolutionary Party from 1975 to 2015, holding various positions including those of Member of the National Executive Committee and of the Political Commission, as well as member of the Organization Departments, Education and Doctrine of said party.

Mateo Aquino Febrillet, (September 21, 1955 in San Cristóbal, Dominican Republic – March 11, 2016 in Santo Domingo) was an educator, administrator, writer and Dominican politician. He was elected Dean of the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo in 2011 and candidate for Senator of the Modern Revolutionary Party in the province of San Cristóbal, Dominican Republic in the last elections of 2016.

Mateo Aquino Febrillet was born on September 21, 1955, in the Juan Pablo Pina Hospital of San Cristóbal, Dominican Republic, he was the son of Federico Aquino Minier and Inocencia Febrillet Pozo, both deceased.