Román Rodríguez Rodríguez
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Román Rodríguez Rodríguez (b. March 1, 1956 in San Nicolás de Tolentino) is a Canarian politician who was the president of the Canary Islands between 1999 and 2003. He was licensed in medicine at the University of La Laguna. He worked as a medical assistant for one year and as a university professor.
During the 1980s, he took part in antimilitarist and social movements. In 1991, he joined Iniciativa Canaria (ICAN), an organization which in 1993 merged with the Canarian Coalition (CC).
He was director 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, as the internal tensions within the Canarian Coalition became more evident, Román Rodríguez Rodríguez headed a faction critical of the coalition, forming a new political group called Nuevas Canarias. Nevertheless, in the Spanish Congress of Deputies, he continues to sit as a 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 |
Jerónimo Saavedra Acevedo | Fernando Fernández Martín | Lorenzo Olarte Cullén | Jerónimo Saavedra Acevedo | Manuel Antonio Hermoso Rojas | Román Rodríguez Rodríguez | Adán Martín Menis
