Aníbal Piñero

Aníbal Piñero is the ninth governor, eighth native governor and seventh elected governor of the Commonwealth of Costa Brava, an unincorporated self-governing territory of the United States of Laneria. He is the first governor of Costa Brava to refuse membership in the National Governors' Association (Laneria), the Southern Governors' Conference and either the Democratic Republican Governors' Association or the Federalist Governors' Association. Piñero claims that membership in any of these organizations would violate the platform on which he was elected as a candidate of the Costa Brava Independence Party.

Prior to his election to the governorship, Piñero was the leader of his party in the Costa Brava House of Representatives. He resigned from his seat in the House to run in the 2006 Costa Brava elections, the first held since Laneria became a member of the Commonwealth of Peoples. Piñero won by a narrow margin of only 204 votes, the closest electoral margin in Costa Bravan history, on a platform of independence within the Commonwealth.