Prim Pujals Nolasco (born 26 July 1943) is a lawyer, judge, and politician from the

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. He is

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for the

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of Samaná, elected in 2006, and re-elected in 2010. Pujals is

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. On 29 December 2018, video footage of Pujals emerged on Dominican news media (and spread on social media) where he was seen loudly threatening a bystander who confronted him when he allegedly tried to cut in line at a local bank. Pujals can be heard threatening to kill the unnamed man, and calling him a derogatory racial slur.

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Living people 1943 births People from Samaná Province Social Christian Reformist Party politicians Dominican Republic judges 20th-century Dominican Republic lawyers Dominican Republic people of Catalan descent Members of the Senate of the Dominican Republic White Dominicans {{DominicanRepublic-politician-stub