Òscar Ribas Reig

Òscar Ribas Reig (Catalan: [ˈɔskəɾ ˈriβəz ˈret͡ʃ]; 26 October 1936 – 18 December 2020) was an Andorran politician, lawyer, and businessman who became the prime minister of Andorra in 1982.

Òscar Ribas Reig was born in Sant Julià de Lòria, Andorra,[1] on 26 October 1936 to an Andorran father and a Catalan mother.

[1] Ribas Reig's earliest political service was as Secretary to the City Council of his native Sant Julià de Lòria between 1963 and 1965.

[1] During Andorra's institutional reform process, Ribas Reig was considered to be a possible new head of government, especially after the 1981 parliamentary election in which he was re-elected for the Sant Julià de Lòria parish.

[30] On 30 June 2005, Ribas Reig entered the Spanish Royal Academy of Economic and Financial Sciences in Barcelona, and remained an academician until his death in 2020.

[36] His funeral was held on 20 December in Sant Julià de Lòria's church and presided over by Co-Prince Joan Enric Vives.

Ribas Reig with President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev , 26 April 2014