The Most Excellent
Ángel Víctor Torres
Minister for Territorial Policy and Democratic Memory
Assumed office
21 November 2023
MonarchFelipe VI
Prime MinisterPedro Sánchez
Preceded byIsabel Rodríguez García (Territorial Policy)
Félix Bolaños (Democratic Memory)
President of the Canary Islands
In office
16 July 2019 – 12 July 2023
MonarchFelipe VI
Preceded byFernando Clavijo
Succeeded byFernando Clavijo
Secretary-General of the Socialist Workers' Party of Canaries
Assumed office
16 September 2019
Preceded byJosé Miguel Pérez García
Mayor of Arucas
In office
14 June 2003 – 16 June 2007
Preceded byLuis Hipólito
Succeeded byJosé María Ponce
In office
11 June 2011 – 13 June 2015
Preceded byJuan Francisco Padrón Rodríguez
Succeeded byJuan Jesús Facundo
Member of the Congress of Deputies
In office
23 July 2007 – 27 September 2011
ConstituencyLas Palmas
Member of the Parliament of the Canary Islands
In office
24 June 2019 – 20 November 2023
ConstituencyParty list
Personal details
Born (1966-03-30) 30 March 1966
Arucas, Canary Islands, Spain
Political partySpanish Socialist Workers' Party
OccupationPolitician, 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

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

Torres 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 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

  1. 1 2 "Ángel Víctor Torres". La Provincia (in Spanish). 12 May 2015. Retrieved 16 May 2020.
  2. 1 2 "El 'sanchista' Ángel Víctor Torres, nuevo secretario general del PSOE de Canarias". InfoLibre (in Spanish). 23 July 2017. Retrieved 16 May 2020.
  3. ↑ Albalá, África (20 June 2019). "Ángel Víctor Torres, un filólogo comprometido con el sanchismo". 20minutos.es (in Spanish).
  4. ↑ "Torres Pérez, Ángel Víctor". Congress of Deputies (in Spanish). Retrieved 16 May 2020.
  5. ↑ Murillo, Pedro (20 June 2019). "El PSOE logra un acuerdo con la izquierda para gobernar en Canarias". El País. Prisa. Retrieved 16 May 2020.
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