Overview

• He died of stomach cancer at the Hospital Universitario de Badajoz, where he had been admitted on September 27 for an infection.
• The PSOE confirmed his death early Sunday after brief uncertainty caused by a family message from his account saying he was still fighting the disease.
• Government delegate José Luis Quintana announced the news at 6:32 a.m., while earlier posts by María Guardiola and Salvador Illa were deleted during the confusion.
• Fernández Vara governed Extremadura for 12 years across 2007–2011 and 2015–2023, and at his death he was second vice president of the Senate and a member of the PSOE’s federal executive.
• A physician by training, he revealed his diagnosis in December 2023 and stayed active in the Senate and academia; he would have turned 67 on October 6.