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The Government of the Canary Islands has its main headquarters in Santa Cruz de Tenerife and Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. [ 2 ] The current autonomous regime of the Canary Islands arises as a result of the representative democratic system established in Spain with the entry into force of the Spanish Constitution of 1978 on December 28.
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. [17] [18] The political capital of the archipelago did not exist as such until the nineteenth century.
Since 1982 the Canary Islands have had a statute of autonomy, which defines the archipelago as a nationality of Spain. In the 1980s a nationalist-like party called UPC (Canarian People's Union) was the third-most-voted party in Canary Islands. In 1985 Antonio Cubillo returned from Algiers and founded the National Congress of the Canaries (CNC ...
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 ...
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.
The president of the Canary Islands is the head of government of the Canary Islands, one of the 17 autonomous communities of Spain, while the monarch Felipe VI remains the head of state as king of Spain (and therefore of the Canary Islands).
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 Gran Canaria.
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