Vicente Álvarez Areces
Vicente Alberto Álvarez Areces (4 August 1943 – 17 January 2019), also known as Tini Areces, was a Spanish politician. He was the sixth President of the Principality of Asturias in Spain from 1999 to 2011. He was a member of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party political party. He was also a member of the Committee of the Regions, working as a vice-president of the Party of European Socialists Group. Areces was born in Gijón.
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He was also Mayor of Gijón from 1987 to 1999. From 2011 until his death in 2019, he was a member of the Spanish Senate.
Areces died on 17 January 2019 in Gijón at the age of 75.[1]
References
- "Fallece de forma repentina el expresidente del Principado Vicente Álvarez Areces" [Former President of the Principality Vicente Álvarez Areces passed away suddenly]. La Nueva España. 17 January 2019. Retrieved 17 January 2019.
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