The president of People’s Party (PP) of the Canary Islands and mayor of Los Realejos, Manuel Dominguezhas called a press conference for this Tuesday, May 31, in which will announce his resignation to the Mayor’s Office of the aforementioned Tenerife municipality, which he has held since the local elections of June 2011.
Manuel Domínguez, who was elected president of the PP of the Canary Islands in January of this year, is also a deputy of the Popular group in the regional Parliament and in the past mandate he was a counselor for the same training in the Council of Tenerife.
According to information published on the website of the Los Realejos City Council, Manuel Domínguez was born in Caracas (Venezuela) in 1974 and returned to the municipality of origin of his parents when he was 7 years old.
In the municipal elections of 2003 he acceded for the first time as a councilor to the Los Realejos City Council, where he directed the Treasury area in a pact government with the Canarian Coalition.
In 2007 he revalidated his act but continued in opposition and the following year he was appointed General Secretary of the Popular Party of Tenerife.
In July 2009 he agreed to Congress as a deputy to replace Gabriel Mato, after he was designated a candidate for the European Parliament.
In the 2011 local elections he obtained an absolute majority in the Los Realejos City Council and was re-elected four years later, when he increased the number of councilors in his group to fourteen, a figure that increased to 15 councilors in the 2019 elections.
With a degree in Business Administration and Management specializing in Marketing from the Higher School of Management and a Master’s MBA from the University of Wyoming, he has been a partner-owner of a company dedicated to real estate development.
In 2012 he was elected president of the Popular Party of Tenerife and between 2009 and 2011 he was a national deputyexercising the spokesperson for Sports, and for a year he was responsible for the Commonwealth of the North (2011-2012).
Between 2012-2014 he was president of Funcanorte, Canarian Foundation for the Promotion of Musical Culture and Performing Arts in the North of Tenerife.