Javier Fernández Fernández (born 7 January 1948 in

Mieres Mieres is a municipality of Asturias, northern Spain, with approximately 38,000 inhabitants. The municipality of Mieres is made up of the capital, Mieres del Camino and the villages of Baíña, Figaredo, Cenera, Loredo, La Peña, La Rebollada, ...

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) is a Spanish

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, and

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. He was the

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of the Federación Socialista Asturiana, the regional socialist party affiliated with the national

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(PSOE). Fernández served as the

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from 26 May 2012 to 16 July 2019. He came to power as 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

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(UPyD). Fernández was elected president on 23 May 2012, and took office three days later. He appointed five women and three men to his cabinet, including economist Dolores Carcedo as the

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. He retained the Presidency after the 2015 election, but governing in minority only with the support of the

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. On 1 October 2016, Fernández was named by PSOE to lead the party's caretaker committee, after the resignation of

Pedro Sánchez Pedro Sánchez Pérez-Castejón (; born 29 February 1972) is a Spanish politician who has served as Prime Minister of Spain since 2018. He has also been Secretary-General of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) since July 2017, having p ...

as secretary general.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Fernandez, Javier 1948 births Presidents of the Principality of Asturias Members of the 6th Congress of Deputies (Spain) Living people People from Mieres, Asturias