Tenerife politician and president of the Cabildo de Tenerife · 1913–1990
Tenerife politician and president of the Cabildo de Tenerife
Tenerife politician linked to UCD and later to ATI. He was a deputy for Santa Cruz de Tenerife and president of the Cabildo de Tenerife from 1979 to 1983.
José Miguel Galván Bello was born in Santa Cruz de Tenerife on 17 July 1913. His public career unfolded in Tenerife politics during Spain's democratic Transition and the first years of democratic reorganisation of the island institutions. Parliamentary records place him as a deputy for Santa Cruz de Tenerife in the Constituent Legislature and in the First Legislature, within the political space of the Union of the Democratic Centre.
At island level, he chaired the Cabildo de Tenerife from April 1979 to May 1983. His political activity was linked to Tenerife's institutional organisation within the new democratic and autonomous framework.
In later Canarian politics he appears in connection with the Agrupación Tinerfeña de Independientes (ATI). A study of the 1986 elections mentions him as an ATI candidate in Tenerife within the FRAIC context and the broader islandist discourse. He died on 17 September 1990.
