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Victoriano Ríos Pérez (19 June 1930 – 9 January 2018) was a Spanish physician and politician. Born on 19 June 1930 in
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, he attended the
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, where he later taught. Ríos contested the 1986 Canary Islands parliamentary elections, and served until 1999. From 1987 to 1995, Ríos was
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of the regional legislature, which nominated Ríos to the
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later that year. Upon stepping down in 2003, Ríos returned to the
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until 2004. He died in Tenerife on 9 January 2018, aged 87.


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