Manuel Antonio Hermoso Rojas (

San Cristóbal de La Laguna San Cristóbal de La Laguna (commonly known as La Laguna, ) is a city and municipality in the northern part of the island of Tenerife in the Province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, on the Canary Islands, Spain. The city is the third-most populous ci ...

, 24 June 1935) is a

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politician. He ran for mayor of

Santa Cruz de Tenerife Santa Cruz de Tenerife, commonly abbreviated as Santa Cruz (), is a city, the capital of the island of Tenerife, Province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, and capital of the Canary Islands. Santa Cruz has a population of 206,593 (2013) within its admi ...

from 1979 until 1991 and the fourth president of the Canary Islands Autonomous Region between 1993 and 1999. He represents 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 Canary Islands (; es, Canarias, ), also known informally as the Canaries, are a Span ...

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.

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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 the Canary Islands {{CanaryIslands-stub