Javier Fernández | |
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| 8th President of the Principality of Asturias Elections: 2012, 2015 | |
| Assumed office 26 May 2012 | |
| Monarch | Juan Carlos I Felipe VI |
| Preceded by | Francisco Álvarez Cascos |
| President of PSOE Caretaking Committee | |
| In office 1 October 2016 –18 June 2017 | |
| Preceded by | Pedro Sánchez (as Secretary General) |
| Succeeded by | Pedro Sánchez (as Secretary General) |
| Member of the Congress of Deputies | |
| In office 3 March 1996 –22 July 1999 | |
| Constituency | Asturias |
| Member of the Senate | |
| In office 14 July 2003 –25 May 2012 | |
| Constituency | Asturias |
| Member of the General Junta of the Principality of Asturias | |
| Assumed office 27 May 2007 | |
| Constituency | Central Asturias |
| Personal details | |
| Born | January 7, 1948 Mieres, Asturias, Spain |
| Political party | PSOE |
Javier Fernández Fernández (born January 7, 1948 in Mieres, Asturias) is a Spanish politician, mining engineer, and civil servant. He is the secretary general of the Federación Socialista Asturiana, the regional socialist party affiliated with the national Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE).
Mieres is a municipality of Asturias, northern Spain with approximately 45,000 inhabitants. The municipality of Mieres is made up of the capital, Mieres del Camino and the villages of Baiña, Figaredo, Cenera, Loredo, La Peña, La Rebollada, Santullano, Santa Rosa, Seana, Ujo, Urbies, Valdecuna, Santa Cruz, Ablaña, Turón, Gallegos, Bustiello.
Asturias, officially the Principality of Asturias, is an autonomous community in north-west Spain. It is coextensive with the province of Asturias, and contains some of the territory that was part of the larger Kingdom of Asturias in the Middle Ages. Divided into eight comarcas (counties), the autonomous community of Asturias is bordered by Cantabria to the east, by Castile and León to the south, by Galicia to the west, and by the Bay of Biscay to the north.
Spain, officially the Kingdom of Spain, is a country mostly located in Europe. Its continental European territory is situated on the Iberian Peninsula. Its territory also includes two archipelagoes: the Canary Islands off the coast of Africa, and the Balearic Islands in the Mediterranean Sea. The African enclaves of Ceuta, Melilla, and Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera make Spain the only European country to have a physical border with an African country (Morocco). Several small islands in the Alboran Sea are also part of Spanish territory. The country's mainland is bordered to the south and east by the Mediterranean Sea except for a small land boundary with Gibraltar; to the north and northeast by France, Andorra, and the Bay of Biscay; and to the west and northwest by Portugal and the Atlantic Ocean.
Fernández has served as the President of the Principality of Asturias since May 26, 2012, the result of a coalition government stemming from the 2012 Asturias General Council election held in March. A parliamentary pact was made between the PSOE and the centrist Union, Progress and Democracy (UPyD). Fernández was elected president on May 23, 2012, [1] and took office three days later. He appointed five women and three men to his cabinet, including economist Dolores Carcedo as the Minister of Finance. [2]
The President of the Principality of Asturias is the head of government of the Spanish autonomous community of Asturias. The President is chosen by the General Junta of the Principality of Asturias, regional parliamentary institution.
Union, Progress and Democracy is a Spanish political party founded in September 2007. It is a social liberal party which rejects any form of non-Spanish nationalism, especially the separatist Basque and Catalan movements. The party is deeply pro-European and wants the European Union to adopt a federal system without overlap between the European, national and regional governments. Besides, the magenta party wants to replace the State of Autonomies with a symmetric and highly centralized, albeit still federal, system in Spain as well as substituting a more proportional election law for the current one.
He retained the Presidency after the 2015 election, but governing in minority only with the support of the United Left of Asturias.
United Left of Asturias is the Asturian federation of the Spanish left wing political and social movement United Left. Manuel González Orviz is the current General Coordinator. The Communist Party of Asturias and Izquierda Abierta are the major members of the coalition.
On 1 October 2016, Fernández was named by PSOE to lead the party's caretaker committee, after the resignation of Pedro Sánchez as Secretary General. [3]
