Paulino Rivero | |
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| 8th President of the Canary Islands | |
| In office 13 July 2007 –9 July 2015 | |
| Preceded by | Adán Martín Menis |
| Succeeded by | Fernando Clavijo Batlle |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 11 February 1952 El Sauzal,Tenerife,Spain |
| Political party | Canarian Coalition |
Paulino Rivero Baute (born 11 February 1952 in El Sauzal, Tenerife, Spain) is a Spanish politician and teacher. A member of the Canarian Coalition, he is the former president of the autonomous community of the Canary Islands.
Prior to his career in politics, Rivero was a primary school teacher; he received his diploma from the University of La Laguna. [1] In the 1979 regional elections, the first such elections under the Spanish Constitution of 1978, Rivero was elected as the mayor of El Sauzal, a position he held until 1997. [2] [1] Rivero initially represented the Union of the Democratic Centre, but in 1983 he switched to the Agrupación Tinerfeña de Independientes, a group that eventually formed part of the Canarian Coalition. [3]
Rivero was also a member of the Cabildo de Tenerife before moving into national politics in 1996. [3] At the 1996 general election, Rivero was elected to the Congress of Deputies as the representative of the Santa Cruz de Tenerife electoral district - he was subsequently re-elected at the 2000 and 2004 general elections. [3] He chaired the parliamentary committee investigating the 2004 Madrid train bombings. [4]
In February 2007, Rivero was selected as the Canarian Coalition's candidate for President of the Canary Islands at the 2007 regional elections. [5] The coalition received the third-highest share of the vote, 23.36%, but received the second highest number of delegates with 19. [6] Rivero's party formed a coalition with the third-place People's Party, which allowed him to be installed as President on 13 July 2007. [7]
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