The government delegate in the Canary Islands, Anselmo Pestana, has appointed Pedro Viera Espinosa as island director of the General Administration of the State in Lanzarote.
Graduated in Chemical Sciences from the University of La Laguna (ULL) and a career officer in the Secondary School Teachers Corps, Pedro Viera has served as coordinator in the Island Directorate of Education in Lanzarote and has been a member of the Social Council of the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC) between 1999 and 2003.
He has also been deputy spokesperson of the Socialist Parliamentary Group in the Parliament of the Canary Islands between 2019 and 2023 and spokesperson of the Socialist Municipal Group in the City of Arrecife between 2011 and 2015.