Cabildo Insular de La Palma
Cabildo Insular de La Palma is the name of the Island Council ( Cabildo Insular ) politically to Spain belonging Canary Island of La Palma . The island capital Santa Cruz de La Palma is the seat of the Cabildos.
General
Like all Cabildos in the Canary Islands , the Cabildo de La Palma was introduced in 1912 after the Cabildo Act ( Spanish Ley de Cabildos ) came into force. The composition is determined by a democratic election. The island government of La Palma performs its own tasks below the level of the province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife and above the level of the municipal administrations of the fourteen island communities .
Current composition
Anselmo Pestana Padrón ( PSOE ) has been president of the island government since 2013 . The 21 seats in the island parliament have been distributed as follows since the regional elections on May 24, 2015:
- Social Democratic Partido Socialista Obrero Español : 8 seats
- Liberal-nationalist Coalición Canaria : 7 seats
- Conservative Partido Popular : 5 seats
- left-independent Podemos : 1 seat
President of the Cabildo Insular de La Palma since 1979
- Gregorio Guadalupe Rodríguez, 1979-1982, Coalición Canaria
- José Ernesto Luis González Afonso, 1982–1991, Partido Popular
- Gregorio Guadalupe Rodríguez, 1991-1993, Coalición Canaria
- Felipe Hernández Rodríguez, 1993-1996, Partido Socialista Obrero Español
- José Luis Perestelo Rodríguez, 1996-2009, Coalición Canaria
- Guadalupe González Taño, 2009-2013, Coalición Canaria
- Anselmo Pestana Padrón, Partido Socialista Obrero Español since 2013