Secretary of State for Territorial Administrations

The Secretary of State for Territorial Administrations, currently named Secretary of State for Territorial Policy is the highest official of the Ministry of Territorial Policy and Public Function responsible for the development of the Government's policy about Spain's territorial organization as well as responsible for the relations between the central government and the regional and local authorities.

Secretary of State for Territorial Policy
Secretario de Estado de Política Territorial
Coat of Arms used by the Government
Incumbent
Miryam Álvarez Páez
(Acting)
since June 28, 2019
Ministry of Territorial Policy and Public Function
Secretariat of State for Territorial Policy
StyleThe Most Excellent (formal)
Mr. Secretary of State for Territorial Policy (informal)
Reports toTerritorial Policy Minister
NominatorTerritorial Policy Minister
AppointerMonarch
PrecursorMinister for Territorial Administration
FormationFebruary 20, 1987
First holderJosé Francisco Peña Díez
Salary€ 113,145.95 per year[1]
Websiteseat.mpr.gob.es

It's also responsible for the supervision of the decentralized departments of the central government in the regions and impulse and coordination of the Conference of Presidents (the main forum of collaboration between the Prime Minister and the regional leaders), as well as the Presidency of the Council of Official Languages in the General Administration of the State.[2]

Directly from the Secretary of State depends the Secretary General for Territorial Coordination.

History

The need to create a department focused on the coordination of the different state administrations appeared after the approval of the Constitution, which established a decentralized state composed of different autonomous communities. Given this, the Ministry of Territorial Administration was created in 1979 and was in force until the end of 1986.

In 1987, the Ministry of Public Administrations was created, which assumed the powers over the civil servants and the territorial organization, creating a Secretariat of State focused on the relations of the different administrations called the Secretary of State for Territorial Administrations.[3]

In 2000, the Secretariat of State changed its name to Secretariat of State for the Territorial Organization of the State and changed its name again in 2004 to Secretariat of State of Territorial Cooperation until 2011 when PM Rajoy in an effort to reduce the deficit of the State, reduced the governmental apparatus integrating this Secretariat of State in the Secretariat of State for Public Administrations (in charge of the civil servants and now also of the relations between administrations) and the Ministry of Public Administrations also merged with the Ministry of the Treasury.

In 2016, with the economical improvement, the Secretariats of State of Public Function and Territorial Administration were separated again and the latest was integrated with its Ministry in the Ministry of the Presidency.

Since 2018, the Ministry for Territorial Administrations recovered its independence and was renamed Ministry for Territorial Policy and Public Function (taking the competencies over the civil servants from the Ministry of the Treasury).

Structure

Under the Secretary of State are the following officials:[2]

  • The Secretary General for Territorial Coordination.
    • The Director-General for Regional and Local Cooperation.
      • The Deputy Director-General for Regional Cooperation.
      • The Deputy Director-General for Bilateral Relations with the Autonomous Communities.
      • The Deputy Director-General for Local Cooperation.
    • The Director-General for Regional and Local Legal Regime.
      • The Deputy Director-General for the Autonomous Legal System.
      • The Deputy Director-General for the Local Legal System.
      • The National Coordinator of the Internal Market Information System
  • The Deputy Director-General for the Coordination of the Peripheral Administration.
  • The Deputy Director-General for Human Resources of the Peripheral Administration.
  • The Deputy Director-General for Financial and Properties Management of the Peripheral Administration.
  • The Deputy Director-General for the Promotion of the Peripheral Administration.
  • The Inspectorate of Services of the Peripheral Administration.
  • The Deputy Director-General for European and International Relations.

List of Secretaries of State for Territorial Administrations
No. Image Name Term of Office Ministers serving under: Prime Minister appointed by:
Began Ended Days of Service
1º José Francisco Peña Díez 28 February 1987 11 May 1996 3360 Joaquín Almunia Amann
Juan Manuel Eguiagaray
Jerónimo Saavedra
Joan Lerma i Blasco		 Felipe González
2º Jorge Fernández Díaz 11 May 1996 23 January 1999 987 Mariano Rajoy José María Aznar
3º Francisco Camps 23 January 1999 1 April 2000 434 Ángel Acebes Paniagua
4º Gabriel Elorriaga Pisarik 6 May 2000 20 April 2004 1445 Ángel Acebes Paniagua
Jesús Posada
Javier Arenas
Julia García-Valdecasas
5º José Luis Méndez Romeu 20 April 2004 14 May 2005 389 Jordi Sevilla José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero
6º Ana Isabel Leiva Díaz 14 May 2005 14 July 2007 791
7º Fernando Puig de la Bellacasa 14 July 2007 25 April 2009 651 Elena Salgado
8º Gaspar Zarrías 25 April 2009 24 December 2011 973 Manuel Chaves González
9º Antonio Beteta 24 December 2011 12 November 2016 1785 Cristóbal Montoro Mariano Rajoy
10º Roberto Bermúdez de Castro Mur 19 November 2016 19 June 2018 577 Soraya Sáenz de Santamaría
11º Ignacio Sánchez Amor 23 June 2018 29 June 2019 371 Meritxell Batet Pedro Sánchez
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 Miryam Álvarez Páez
Acting		 29 June 2019 Incumbent 577 Luis Planas

References
  1. "Retribuciones para el año 2017 para el organismo Ministerio de la Presidencia". transparencia.gob.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 2018-09-26.
  2. "Royal Decree 863/2018, of July 13, by which the basic organic structure of the Ministry of Territorial Policy and Public Function is developed". boe.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 2018-09-26.
  3. "Royal Decree 221/1987, of February 20, by which the basic organic structure of the Ministry for Public Administrations is determined". boe.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 2018-09-26.
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