Juan Ignacio Diego Palacios (born 18 May 1960, in Castro Urdiales,

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) is a Spanish

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and member of the Partido Popular. He has served as the President of Cantabria, one of Spain's seventeen autonomous regions, from 2011 to 2015. Diego's PP political party obtained an

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in the Parliament of Cantabria in the regional elections held on 22 May 2011. Ignacio Diego was elected President of the Atlantic Arc Commission, a multi-national association of Atlantic European regions consisting of 26 political regions from

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, and the

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, at a conference held from 31 May to 1 June 2012. Diego (and Cantabria) served a two-year term as President of the AAC from 2012 to 2014. His presidency succeeded that of the

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, which had held it from 2008 to 2012.

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