Ángel Víctor Torres
| Ángel Víctor Torres | |
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| Mayor of Arucas | |
| In office 2003–2007 |
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| In office 2011–2015 |
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| Personal details | |
| Born | 30 March 1966 Arucas, Spain |
| Nationality | Spanish |
| Political party | Spanish Socialist Workers' Party |
| Occupation | Politician, high school teacher |
Ángel Víctor Torres Pérez (born 1966) is a Spanish politician. He is the Secretary-General of the Socialist Party of the Canaries (PSC–PSOE).
Biography
Born on 30 March 1966 in Arucas, in the island of Gran Canaria, he obtained a degree in Hispanic Philology at the University of La Laguna.[1] He became a highschool professor of language and literature in 1991.[2][1]
He 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).[3]
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,[4] as the later was 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 Gurbelo) in June 2019 to form a regional government with Torres as its President, that would oust the government of Canarian Coalition after a 26-year long rule of the Canary Islands.[5]
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