Vicente Álvarez Areces | |
Office: | President of the Principality of Asturias |
Order: | 6th |
Predecessor: | Sergio Marqués Fernández |
Successor: | Francisco Álvarez Cascos |
Office2: | Senator from Asturias |
Party: | PSOE |
Birth Date: | 4 August 1943 |
Birth Place: | Gijón, Asturias, Spain |
Death Place: | Gijón, Asturias, Spain |
Term Start: | 20 July 1999 |
Term End: | 15 July 2011 |
Term Start2: | 13 December 2011 |
Term End2: | 17 January 2019 |
Office3: | Mayor of Gijón |
Term Start3: | 30 June 1987 |
Term End3: | 3 July 1999 |
Vicente Alberto Álvarez Areces (4 August 1943 – 17 January 2019), also known as Tini Areces, was a Spanish politician. He served as the sixth President of the Principality of Asturias in Spain, and 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, and prior to his becoming President of Asturias in 1999, he had served as mayor of Gijón between 1987 and 1999. He died on 17 January 2019.[1]