President Luis Abinader exhorted 147 newly graduated public servants to exercise their functions with ethics, transparency, and honesty during a ceremony in Santo Domingo. ^[1] 147 public servants from the Dominican State received their titles in the Master's in Public Administration and Governance at the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo (UASD). ^[2] The 147 graduates correspond to the second cohort of the Master's in Public Management and Governance, an initiative driven by President Abinader through the National Institute of Public Administration (INAP) and developed by the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo (UASD). ^[3] With this graduation, the program reaches a total of 346 trained professionals, combining the 147 graduates from this ceremony with the 199 public servants invested in the previous ceremony. ^[4] President Luis Abinader asserted that the transformation of the Dominican Republic depends not only on the decisions of the President or Government but also on the thousands of daily decisions made by responsible, prepared, and honest public servants. ^[5] President Luis Abinader stated that the first virtue a public official must have is transparency, followed by honesty. ^[6]