Adrián Barbón | |
Office: | 9th President of the Principality of Asturias |
Term Start: | 16 July 2019 |
Vicepresidents: | Juan Cofiño Gimena Llamedo |
Predecessor: | Javier Fernández |
Office1: | Secretary-General of the Asturian Socialist Federation |
Term Start1: | 17 September 2019 |
Predecessor1: | Javier Fernández |
Office2: | Member of the Congress of Deputies |
Term Start2: | 29 September 2015 |
Term End2: | 27 October 2015 |
Constituency2: | Asturias |
Office3: | Mayor of Laviana |
Term Start3: | 30 September 2008 |
Term End3: | 9 October 2017 |
Office5: | Member of the General Junta of the Principality of Asturias |
Constituency5: | Central Asturias |
Term Start5: | 24 June 2019 |
Birth Date: | 4 January 1979 |
Birth Place: | Laviana, Asturias, Spain |
Party: | PSOE |
Alma Mater: | University of Oviedo |
Honorific Prefix: | The Most Excellent |
Adrián Barbón Rodríguez (born 4 January 1979) is a Spanish politician. He is the secretary general of the Asturian Socialist Federation, the regional socialist party affiliated with the national Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) and the current President of the Principality of Asturias.
Adrián Barbón was born 4 January 1979, in the municipality of Laviana, in the heart of mining region of Asturias. He received his primary education in San José School, located in the neighbouring town of Sotrondio, that closed in 2019 as a consequence of the decline in population in the region.[1] He finished secondary education in IES David Vázquez Martínez, in his hometown of Pola de Laviana.[2] Adrián Barbón graduated in law from the University of Oviedo.
After serving as mayor of Laviana since 2008 to 2017, Barbón assumed the general secretariat of the Asturian Socialist Federation on 17 September 2017. Two years later, after winning the 2019 Asturian regional election, he was named President of the Principality of Asturias.[3]
On 17 December 2021, he was diagnosed with COVID-19, being hospitalized and with his vice-president Juan Cofiño replacing him as interim President.[4]