President of the Principality of Asturias

The President of the Principality of Asturias (Spanish: Presidente del Principado de Asturias); Asturian: Presidente del Principáu d'Asturies) 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, autonomous parliamentary institution.

President of the Principality of Asturias
Coat of Arms of the Principality of Asturias
Incumbent Adrián Barbón since 16 July 2019
Nominator	The General Junta
Appointer	The Monarch countersigned by the Prime Minister
Term length	No fixed term Regional election to the General Junta are held every 4 years at most. No term limits are imposed on the office.
Constituting instrument	Statute of Autonomy
Inaugural holder	Rafael Fernández Álvarez
Formation	1978

Election

The president is elected after the constitution of the General Junta or after the cessation of the former president.

A deputy can be nominated as candidate only if at least five members propose him.

During the Investiture proceedings the nominees present their political agenda in an Investiture Speech to be debated and submitted for a Vote of Confidence by the General Junta, effecting an indirect election of the head of government. A simple majority confirms the nominee and his program. At the moment of the vote, the confidence is awarded if the candidate receives a majority of votes in the first poll (currently 23 out of 45 deputies), but if the confidence is not awarded, a second vote is scheduled two days later in which a simple majority of votes cast (i.e., more "yes" than "no" votes) is required.

Headquarters

The headquarters of the President of the Principality of Asturias are located in Oviedo. The building is in the back part of the General Junta of the Principality of Asturias and both buildings are connected by an underground passage.

The building was formerly the seat of the Bank of Spain in Oviedo until 1982

The Principality of Asturias acquired the building 1982 and reformed it for its current use between 1983 and 1985.

List of officeholders

Governments:

•   PSOE
•   PP
•   FAC
•   Mixed coalition

Portrait	Name (Birth–Death)	Term of office			Party		Government Composition	Election	Ref.
		Took office	Left office	Duration
	Rafael Fernández Álvarez (1913–2010)	10 November 1978	18 June 1979	4 years and 222 days		PSOE	Fernández Álvarez I PSOE–UCD–AP–PCE	N/A	[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]
		18 June 1979	5 May 1982				Fernández Álvarez II PSOE–UCD–AP–PCE
		5 May 1982	20 June 1983				Fernández Álvarez III PSOE–PCE
	Pedro de Silva (born 1945)	20 June 1983	28 July 1987	8 years and 21 days		PSOE	De Silva I PSOE	1983	[7] [8] [9]
		28 July 1987	11 July 1991				De Silva II PSOE	1987
	Juan Luis Rodríguez-Vigil (born 1945)	11 July 1991	19 June 1993	1 year and 343 days		PSOE	Rodríguez-Vigil PSOE	1991	[10] [11] [12]
	Antonio Trevín (born 1956)	19 June 1993	17 July 1995	2 years and 28 days		PSOE	Trevín PSOE		[13] [14]
	Sergio Marqués (1946–2012)	17 July 1995	21 July 1999	4 years and 4 days		PP	Marqués PP until Jun 1998 Ind./URAS from Jun 1998[a]	1995	[17] [18]
						URAS
	Vicente Álvarez Areces (1943–2019)	21 July 1999	5 July 2003	11 years and 360 days		PSOE	Areces I PSOE	1999	[19] [20] [21] [22]
		5 July 2003	12 July 2007				Areces II PSOE–IU–BA	2003
		12 July 2007	16 July 2011				Areces III PSOE until Nov 2008 PSOE–IU–BA from Nov 2008	2007
	Francisco Álvarez-Cascos (born 1947)	16 July 2011	25 May 2012	314 days		FAC	Cascos FAC	2011	[23] [24]
	Javier Fernández (born 1948)	25 May 2012	23 July 2015	7 years and 53 days		PSOE	Fernández I PSOE	2012	[25] [26] [27]
		23 July 2015	17 July 2019				Fernández II PSOE	2015
	Adrián Barbón (born 1979)	17 July 2019	20 July 2023	5 years and 281 days		PSOE	Barbón I PSOE	2019	[28] [29]
		20 July 2023	Incumbent				Barbón II PSOE–IU	2023

Timeline

Notes

1. Sergio Marqués had been suspended from PP membership in June 1998, then expelled from the party in February 1999 after he founded and joined the new URAS party.^[15][16]