Miguel Cabrera Cabrera (born 1948 in

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) is a Spanish architect and politician whose sphere of political action has been the Canary Island of

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. He completed three years of high school in

for free and then attended Pérez Galdós High School in the city of

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in Gran Canaria. He studied architecture at colleges in

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and

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, where he obtained a degree in 1973. He practiced in Gran Canaria and Fuerteventura. In 1975, he was elected for a position in the Governing Board of the Colegio de Arquitectos, until he resigned at the beginning of the general elections in 1977. For the 1977 general elections, he founded the political party Majorera Assembly, with which he was elected

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by Fuerteventura. He did not won the following election, surpassed by ten votes (4,468 vs. 4,458) by the candidate for the UCD, but he was elected again in the 1982 general elections. In the parliamentary elections of 1987 and

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, he was elected by Asamblea Majorera. In 2010, he was chosen as general director of tourist infrastructure for the government of the Canary Islands.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Cabrera Cabrera, Miguel 1948 births Living people Canarian Coalition politicians Members of the Senate of Spain Politicians from the Canary Islands People from Gran Canaria Members of the 2nd Parliament of the Canary Islands Members of the 3rd Parliament of the Canary Islands