Ángel Víctor Torres
Ángel Víctor Torres | |
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.jpg) Official portrait, 2023 | |
| Minister for Territorial Policy and Democratic Memory | |
| Assumed office 21 November 2023 | |
| Monarch | Felipe VI |
| Prime Minister | Pedro Sánchez |
| Preceded by | Isabel Rodríguez García (Territorial Policy) Félix Bolaños (Democratic Memory) |
| President of the Canary Islands | |
| In office 16 July 2019 – 12 July 2023 | |
| Monarch | Felipe VI |
| Preceded by | Fernando Clavijo |
| Succeeded by | Fernando Clavijo |
| Secretary-General of the Socialist Workers' Party of Canaries | |
| Assumed office 16 September 2019 | |
| Preceded by | José Miguel Pérez García |
| Mayor of Arucas | |
| In office 14 June 2003 – 16 June 2007 | |
| Preceded by | Luis Hipólito |
| Succeeded by | José María Ponce |
| In office 11 June 2011 – 13 June 2015 | |
| Preceded by | Juan Francisco Padrón Rodríguez |
| Succeeded by | Juan Jesús Facundo |
| Member of the Congress of Deputies | |
| In office 23 July 2007 – 27 September 2011 | |
| Constituency | Las Palmas |
| Member of the Parliament of the Canary Islands | |
| In office 24 June 2019 – 20 November 2023 | |
| Constituency | Party list |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 30 March 1966 Arucas, Canary Islands, Spain |
| Political party | Spanish Socialist Workers' Party |
| Occupation | Politician, high school teacher |
Ángel Víctor Torres Pérez (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈaŋxel ˈβiɣtoɾ ˈtores ˈpeɾeθ]; born 30 March 1966) is a Spanish politician currently serving as minister for Territorial Policy and Democratic Memory since 2023 and secretary-general of the Socialist Party of the Canaries (PSC–PSOE) since 2019. Before that, he served as president of the Canary Islands from 2019 to 2023.
Early life and education
[edit]Born on 30 March 1966, in Arucas, on the island of Gran Canaria, Ángel Víctor Torres obtained a degree in Hispanic Philology at the University of La Laguna.[1] He became a high school professor of language and literature in 1991.[2][1]
Career
[edit]Torres entered politics in 1999 when he became a municipal Councillor in Arucas and was elected to the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) list, served as mayor of the municipality in two spells (2003–2007 and 2011–2015).[3]
From 2009 to 2011, he served as a member of the Congress of Deputies, taking in the vacant seat left by Juan Fernando López Aguilar in 2009,[4] who was later elected to the European Parliament.
He was elected as the secretary-general of the PSC-PSOE in July 2017.[2] Following the results of the 2019 Canarian regional election (in which Torres was elected member of the Parliament of the Canary Islands), Torres (representing the PSC-PSOE) reached a deal with the leaders of the New Canaries, Sí Podemos and Gomera Socialist Group (respectively, Román Rodríguez, Noemí Santana and Casimiro Curbelo) in June 2019 to form a regional government headed by Torres that would oust the government of the Canarian Coalition after a 26-year-long rule of the Canary Islands.[5]
On 21 November 2023, King Felipe VI appointed him as minister of Territorial Policy and Democratic Memory in the third government of Pedro Sánchez.
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Ángel Víctor Torres". La Provincia (in Spanish). 12 May 2015. Retrieved 16 May 2020.[dead link]
- ^ a b "El 'sanchista' Ángel Víctor Torres, nuevo secretario general del PSOE de Canarias". InfoLibre (in Spanish). 23 July 2017. Retrieved 16 May 2020.
- ^ Albalá, África (20 June 2019). "Ángel Víctor Torres, un filólogo comprometido con el sanchismo". 20minutos.es (in Spanish).
- ^ "Torres Pérez, Ángel Víctor". Congress of Deputies (in Spanish). Retrieved 16 May 2020.
- ^ Murillo, Pedro (20 June 2019). "El PSOE logra un acuerdo con la izquierda para gobernar en Canarias". El País. Prisa. Retrieved 16 May 2020.
