Ignacio Velázquez Rivera | |
Office: | Mayor-President of Melilla |
Term Start: | 14 March 1995 |
Term End: | 3 March 1998 |
Predecessor: | Office established |
Successor: | Enrique Palacios Hernández |
Birth Date: | 1953 |
Birth Place: | Ceuta, Spain |
Party: | People's Party (before 2011)People's Freedom Party (2011-present) |
Ignacio Velázquez Rivera (born 1953) is a Spanish politician who served as mayor of Melilla from 1991 and became the first Mayor-President on 14 March 1995 when the enclave on the north coast of Africa became an autonomous community. He held the post until 1998.[1]
Velázquez was born in Ceuta, the other Spanish enclave in mainland Africa.[2]