Román Rodríguez Rodríguez
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Román Rodríguez Rodríguez (b. March 1, 1956 in San Nicolás de Tolentino) is a Canarian politician that was the president of the Canary Islands between 1999 and 2003. He is licensed in medicine and at the University of La Laguna. He worked as a medical assistant for one year and as a university professor.
He participated during the 1980s in social movements and antimilitarist movements. In 1991, he integrated in Iniciativa Canaria (ICAN), an organization which in 1993 integrated with the Canarian Coalition (CC). His ideology is adopting more of his preservative look.
He was director ot the General of the Sanitary Assistance between 1993 and 1995. In 1995, he was elected as general director of the Canarian Health Service.
In the 2004 general election, he represented the Canarian Coalition.
In 2004, more patents began to become the internal tensions in the Canarian Coalition, Román Rodríguez Rodríguez heads a critical sector which dislikes this coalition, forming a new demonimated political group named Nuevas Canarias, nevertheless in the Congreso de los Diputados (Congress of the Deputies), he continues being member of the parliamentary group of the Canarian Coalition.
| Preceded by: Manuel Antonio Hermoso Rojas |
President of the Canary Islands 1999—2003 |
Succeeded by: Adán Martín Menis |
