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President Of The Canary Islands
The president of the Canary Islands is the head of government of the Canary Islands, one of the 17 autonomous communities of Spain, while the monarch Felipe VI remains the head of state as king of Spain (and therefore of the Canary Islands). List Presidents of the junta (pre-autonomy) Presidents of the government (after the approval of the Statute of Autonomy Nominally, a Statute of Autonomy ( es, Estatuto de Autonomía, ca, Estatut d'Autonomia, gl, Estatuto de Autonomía, ast, Estatutu d'Autonomía, eu, Autonomia Estatutua) is a law hierarchically located under the constitution of a country and, u ...) Timeline SourcesWorld Statesmen.org {{Authority control ...
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Ángel Víctor Torres
Ángel Víctor Torres Pérez (: born 30 March 1966) is a Spanish politician who serves as the president of the Canary Islands. He is the secretary-general of the Socialist Party of the Canaries (PSC–PSOE). Early life and education Born on 30 March 1966 in Arucas, in the island of Gran Canaria, Ángel Víctor Torres obtained a degree in Hispanic Philology at the University of La Laguna. He became a highschool professor of language and literature in 1991. Career Torres entered politics in 1999 when he became a municipal councillor in Arucas elected in the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) list, serving as mayor of the municipality in two spells (2003–2007 and 2011–2015). He served from 2009 to 2011 as member of the Congress of Deputies, taking in the vacant seat left by Juan Fernando López Aguilar in 2009, as the later was elected to the European Parliament. He was elected as the secretary-general of the PSC–PSOE in July 2017. Following the results of the 2019 C ...
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A portrait is a painting, photograph, sculpture, or other artistic representation of a person, in which the face and its expressions are predominant. The intent is to display the likeness, personality, and even the mood of the person. For this reason, in photography a portrait is generally not a snapshot, but a composed image of a person in a still position. A portrait often shows a person looking directly at the painter or photographer, in order to most successfully engage the subject with the viewer. History Prehistorical portraiture Plastered human skulls were reconstructed human skulls that were made in the ancient Levant between 9000 and 6000 BC in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B period. They represent some of the oldest forms of art in the Middle East and demonstrate that the prehistoric population took great care in burying their ancestors below their homes. The skulls denote some of the earliest sculptural examples of portraiture in the history of art. Historical portraitur ...
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Fernando Clavijo Batlle
Fernando Clavijo Batlle (born 10 August 1971 in San Cristóbal de La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain) is a Spanish politician. A member of the Canarian Coalition The Canarian Coalition ( es, Coalición Canaria, CC) is a regionalist, Canarian nationalist political party in Spain operating in the Canary Islands. The party's aim is for greater autonomy for the islands but not independence. It has been label ..., he was the former president of the autonomous community of the Canary Islands from 2015 to 2019. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Clavijo Batlle, Fernando 1971 births Canarian Coalition politicians Living people Members of the 9th Parliament of the Canary Islands Members of the 10th Parliament of the Canary Islands Members of the 14th Senate of Spain People from San Cristóbal de La Laguna Presidents of the Canary Islands ...
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Fernando Clavijo Batlle (b)
Fernando Clavijo Batlle (born 10 August 1971 in San Cristóbal de La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain) is a Spanish politician and incumbent president of the Canary Islands. A member of the Canarian Coalition The Canarian Coalition ( es, Coalición Canaria, CC) is a regionalist, Canarian nationalist political party in Spain operating in the Canary Islands. The party's aim is for greater autonomy for the islands but not independence. It has been label ..., he previously served as president from 2015 to 2019. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Clavijo Batlle, Fernando 1971 births Canarian Coalition politicians Living people Members of the 9th Parliament of the Canary Islands Members of the 10th Parliament of the Canary Islands Members of the 14th Senate of Spain People from San Cristóbal de La Laguna Presidents of the Canary Islands ...
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Paulino Rivero
Paulino Rivero Baute (born 11 February 1952 in El Sauzal, Tenerife, Spain) is a Spanish politician and teacher. A member of the Canarian Coalition, he is the former president of the autonomous community of the Canary Islands. Biography Prior to his career in politics, Rivero was a primary school teacher; he received his diploma from the University of La Laguna. In the 1979 regional elections, the first such elections under the Spanish Constitution of 1978, Rivero was elected as the mayor of El Sauzal, a position he held until 1997. Rivero initially represented the Union of the Democratic Centre, but in 1983 he switched to the Agrupación Tinerfeña de Independientes, a group that eventually formed part of the Canarian Coalition. Rivero was also a member of the Cabildo de Tenerife before moving into national politics in 1996. At the 1996 general election, Rivero was elected to the Congress of Deputies as the representative of the Santa Cruz de Tenerife electoral district ...
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Adán Martín Menis
Adán Martín Menis (19 October 1943 – 10 October 2010)Fallece Adán Martín Menis, ex presidente del Gobierno de Canarias
El País, 10 October 2010.
was of the Canary Islands () from July 2003 until 2007. Menis was born in

Adán Pablo Martín Menis
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Román Rodríguez Rodríguez
Román Rodríguez Rodríguez (born 1 March 1956, in San Nicolás de Tolentino) is a Canarian politician who was the president of the Canary Islands between 1999 and 2003. He was licensed in medicine at the University of La Laguna. He worked as a medical assistant for one year and as a university professor. During the 1980s, he took part in antimilitarist and social movements. In 1991, he joined Iniciativa Canaria (ICAN), an organization which in 1993 merged with the Canarian Coalition (CC). He was director general of the Sanitary Assistance between 1993 and 1995. In 1995, he was elected as general director of the Canarian Health Service. In the 2004 general election, he represented the Canarian Coalition. In 2004, as the internal tensions within the Canarian Coalition became more evident, Román Rodríguez Rodríguez headed a faction critical of the coalition, forming a new political group called Nueva Canarias. Nevertheless, in the Spanish Congress of Deputies The ...
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Canarian Coalition
The Canarian Coalition ( es, Coalición Canaria, CC) is a regionalist, Canarian nationalist political party in Spain operating in the Canary Islands. The party's aim is for greater autonomy for the islands but not independence. It has been labeled as both conservative and liberal. The party governed the Canary Islands from 1993 to 2019. It usually negotiates with the plurality party at the Cortes to form a majority in exchange for resources for the islands. It also governs the local administrations of Tenerife, La Palma, and Fuerteventura, as well as having majority control in some of the town councils on the Canary Islands. History The coalition was formed in February 1993 from a grouping of five parties (the largest being the Canarian Independent Groups) under one banner and has governed the Canary Islands since 1993, when it replaced the former Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) administration after a motion of no confidence. After entering government, CC obtained power ...
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Manuel Hermoso
Manuel Antonio Hermoso Rojas (San Cristóbal de La Laguna, 24 June 1935) is a Canarian politician. He ran for mayor of Santa Cruz de Tenerife from 1979 until 1991 and the fourth president of the Canary Islands Autonomous Region between 1993 and 1999. He represents the Canarian Coalition party and was the first politician ever to bring his party and himself into power in 1993 he later succeeded after the elections by another Canarian Coalition politician Román Rodríguez Rodríguez Román Rodríguez Rodríguez (born 1 March 1956, in San Nicolás de Tolentino) is a Canarian politician who was the president of the Canary Islands between 1999 and 2003. He was licensed in medicine at the University of La Laguna. He worked as ... in 1999. References 1935 births Living people Presidents of the Canary Islands Members of the 3rd Parliament of the Canary Islands Canarian Coalition politicians People from San Cristóbal de La Laguna Members of the 4th Parliament of ...
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Lorenzo Olarte Cullen
Lorenzo Olarte Cullen (born 8 December 1932) is a local Canarian politician and lawyer. He is a former president of the Canary island Automous region but served only 3 years of his 4 years term. Olarte is awarded the Gran Cruz de San Raimundo de Peñafort, the highest honor for a Spanish jurist, the Gran Cruz del Mérito Civil, created by the Spanish King Alfonso XIII, recognizes the services of Spanish and foreign citizens on behalf of Spain, the Gran Cruz del Mérito Militar,Quién es quién en España
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