What is Vicente Álvarez Areces?
[[File:(Álvarez Areces) Fernández de la Vega firma un convenio de colaboración con la Fundación Príncipe de Asturias. Pool Moncloa. 28 de mayo de 2005 (cropped).jpeg|right|200px]] '''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]]. He was also Mayor of Gijón from 1987 to 1999. From 2011 until his death in 2019, he was a member of the [[Senate of Spain|Spanish Senate]]. Areces died on 17 January 2019 in Gijón at the age of 75.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.lne.es/asturias/2019/01/17/muere-vicente-alvarez-areces/2412087.html|publisher=[[La Nueva España]]|date=17 January 2019|access-date=17 January 2019|title=Fallece de forma repentina el expresidente del Principado Vicente Álvarez Areces |trans-title=Former President of the Principality Vicente Álvarez Areces passed away suddenly}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Areces, Vicente Alvarez}} [[Category:1943 births]] [[Category:2019 deaths]] [[Category:Spanish mayors]] {{bio-stub}}