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The Most Excellent
Ángel Víctor Torres
The Most Excellent Ángel Víctor Torres
	Official portrait, 2023
Minister for Territorial Policy and Democratic Memory
	Incumbent
	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
	Incumbent
	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 (age 58); 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

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 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

^ ^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.

Political offices
Preceded by Froilán Rodríguez	Mayor of Arucas 2003-2007	Succeeded by José María Ponce Anguita
Preceded by Juan Francisco Padrón Rodríguez	Mayor of Arucas 2011-2015	Succeeded by Juan Jesús Facundo
Preceded by Fernando Clavijo	President of the Canary Islands 2019–2023	Succeeded by Fernando Clavijo
Party political offices
Preceded by José Miguel Pérez García	Secretary-General of the Socialist Workers' Party of Canaries 2017–present	Succeeded by Incumbent