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.
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.