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  2. Government of the Canary Islands - Wikipedia

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    The Statute of Autonomy of the Canary Islands (approved by Organic Law 10/1982, of August 10, amended by Organic Law 4/1996, of December 30) is the institutional norm that constitutes the Autonomous Community of the Canary Islands, providing it with its framework basic organizational and functional At the administrative top —and as an ...

  3. Canary Islands Independence Movement - Wikipedia

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    The Movement for the Self-Determination and Independence of the Canary Archipelago (Spanish: Movimiento por la Autodeterminación e Independencia del Archipiélago Canario, MPAIAC), was a Canarian nationalist and socialist organization, founded in 1964 by Antonio Cubillo, whose objective was the secession of the Canary Islands from Spain.

  4. Autonomous communities of Spain - Wikipedia

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    The Canary Islands have a special financial regime in virtue of its location as an overseas territories, while the Basque Country and Navarre have a distinct financial regime called "chartered regime" The Balearic Islands, the Basque Country, Catalonia, Galicia, Navarre, and the Valencian Community have a co-official language and therefore a ...

  5. Jerónimo Saavedra - Wikipedia

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    In August 1982, the Cortes Generales approved the new Statute of Autonomy of the Canary Islands and Saavadera was elected interim president of the first autonomous government. [5] In the first regional elections held on 8 May 1983, he was elected member of the Parliament of the Canary Islands for the constituency of

  6. Canary Islands - Wikipedia

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    At present, the Canary Islands is the only autonomous community in Spain that has two capitals: Santa Cruz de Tenerife and Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, since the Statute of Autonomy of the Canary Islands was created in 1982. [16] [17] The political capital of the archipelago did not exist as such until the nineteenth century.

  7. Conquest of the Canary Islands - Wikipedia

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    Historian Daniele Conversi locates the conquest of the Canary Islands within the history of colonial and imperial genocides. [37] Genocide scholar Mark Levene has stated that while there was not the intent by the Castilian crown to commit genocide, the result of their conquest was the same as if they had intended to commit genocide. [38]

  8. Antonio Cubillo - Wikipedia

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    Cubillo founded the Canary Islands Independence Movement in 1963. [2] While exiled in Algiers, [3] escaping the Francoist dictatorial regime, he began a campaign to gain independence for the Canary Islands in the late 1970s. [2] In 1978, he was crippled in an assassination attempt linked to the security forces of the Spanish Ministry of the ...

  9. Parliament of the Canary Islands - Wikipedia

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    The Parliament of the Canary Islands is the regional legislature of the Canary Islands, an autonomous community of Spain. The Parliament has seventy members and members serve on four-year terms. The parliament is based in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, one of the Canaries' two capitals. Edifice of the Parliament of the Canary Islands