Astrid Pérez Batista

Astrid María Pérez Batista (born 19 October 1969) is a Spanish People's Party politician who is president of the Parliament of the Canary Islands since 2023. She was also mayor of Arrecife between 2019 and 2023 and a councilor of the , as well as a former managing director of Los Centros de Arte, Cultura y Turismo (CACT). Biography Astrid María Pérez Batista She started practicing law in 1996, doing so until 2011, and she was managing director of the Los Centros de Arte, Cultura y Turismo (CACT) from 2009 until 2011.

Pérez was elected to the Parliament of the Canary Islands in the 2011 Canarian regional election for Lanzarote. She was subsequently re-elected to the same constituency in the 2015, 2019, and 2023 elections. In June 2023, she was elected president of the Parliament of the Canary Islands.

In 2019, she was elected mayor of the Arrecife City Council as part of a coalition between the PP, New Canaries and Spanish Socialist Workers' Party. She was re-elected in the 2023 Spanish local elections, as part of a coalition with the Canarian Coalition, but stepped down the same year.