page_title: Federico Antún Batlle
section_title: Family background and first years
hierarchical_section_title: Federico Antún Batlle / Family background and first years
caption_attribution_description: English: Desde pequeño dispuesto a servir
context_page_description: Federico Augusto Antún Batlle, nicknamed Quique Antún, is a Dominican politician and civil engineer the Dominican Republic. Quique Antún is the chairman of the third largest political party in his country, the Social Christian Reformist Party.
context_section_description: Federico Antún Batlle was born in San Pedro de Macorís on 23 July 1952 to Altagracia Mercedes Batlle Ginebra and Federico Antún Abud.
  Antún Batlle descends through his mother from the colonial aristocratic families of De la Rocha, De Coca, Landeche and Bastidas, baronets of the majorat of Dávila and the majorat of Bastidas; his great-great-grandfather, Julián de la Rocha y Cubelge, was cousin of Mercedes de la Rocha, who founded Hato Mayor del Rey in 1888. Antún is also descended from the English King, William the Conqueror, and the Castilian King Alfonso X.
  His paternal grandparents were Lebanese immigrants.
caption: Antún in his childhood
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