Overview
- Roces died Sunday in Oviedo at age 65 after undergoing cancer treatment over the past year.
- He left Spain’s Partido Popular in 2011 to help launch Foro Asturias, relinquishing his regional seat to organize the new party with Francisco Álvarez-Cascos, in whose trial he testified earlier this year.
- He served three consecutive terms as second vice president of the Junta General del Principado de Asturias.
- Beyond politics, he was CEO of the family firm Juan Roces S.A., a prefabricated concrete manufacturer based in Tiñana, Siero.
- The wake is scheduled Monday at the company’s headquarters in Tiñana, with a funeral Tuesday at the parish church in La Felguera.