• The president Pedro Sánchez has raised his salary to 4,655 euros since he is president

  • Civil servants.The Government will also raise public salaries by 0.9%

  • Expenditures The Government doubles spending with its 22 ministries in full crisis

The first coalition government of democracy meant, among other milestones, a government structure like never before in Spain.

Not only the 22 ministries and their consequent spending -doubled by 2021-, but what this entails: senior positions, fingertips, advisers ... In recent weeks, for example, the number of advisers that the Vice President Pablo Iglesias (15) or Minister Irene Montero (9) after the written responses that the Executive has sent to the Con

Congress of the Deputies.

The total amount of salaries for advisers to the ministries of the leaders of Podemos amounts to 1.5 million, in a context of health, economic and social crisis such as that caused by the pandemic by the

Covid-19

, all items relating to the

General State Administration

they look at each other with a magnifying glass.

In this sense, the arrival for the first time of

United we can

the Government has focused the spotlight.The opposition has asked insistently about the advisers of the ministers

purples

, your number, identity and salary.

In recent days, the Lower House has published the information on Iglesias and Montero, after receiving questions from the

PP

and of

Vox

.

The cast of advisers

Specifically, the vice presidency for Social Rights and the 2030 Agenda led by Iglesias has a total of 15 positions of trusted advisers.

"The annual salary credit assigned to these 15 positions is 1,013,498.84 euros," the Government points out in its response. Specifically, the distribution of this staff details that Iglesias directly has seven trusted advisers;

Nacho Alvarez

, Secretary of State for Social Rights, with four;

the same ones you have

Ione Belarra

, Secretary of State for Agenda 2030. However, article 23 of the royal decree of January 28, which establishes the basic organic structure of the ministerial departments, establishes that the cabinets of the heads of the vice-presidencies of the Government who assume , in turn, the ownership of a ministerial department, as is the case of Iglesias, will be made up of a director, with the rank of undersecretary, and a maximum of nine advisers.

Equality: 476,449 euros

In the case of the rest of the ministries, the cabinets will be made up of a director, with the rank of general director, and a maximum of five advisers, with the organic level of deputy general director.

Irene Montero, Minister of Equality, has a trustworthy cabinet made up of her director and five eventual advisers -copa, therefore, the maximum allowed-.

Noelia Vera

, Secretary of State for Equality, works with a team made up of her cabinet director and three eventual advisers.

In total, the Executive indicates in a response published this Monday by Congress that the total number of advisers of the Ministry, understanding by such the positions reserved for temporary personnel level 30, is nine. The remuneration supposes a total amount of 476,449 euros;

The advisers receive a gross annual salary of 51,946 euros, with the exception of the Cabinet Director of the Secretary of State, who receives a gross annual salary of 60,881 euros. From Equality, they expose the temporary staff, the advisers, perform functions expressly qualified as of trust or special advice, as stated in the

Law of the Basic Statute of Public Employees

.

And that their appointment and dismissal are free. "For this reason, this type of personnel is not subject to an academic or professional scale or assessment, as their appointment is free for the performance of a trust or advisory function. For the same reason, the functions They cannot be specified, since they are advisory functions in various matters specific to the Department, argues the Montero department.

Universities: 517,378 euros

Another of the departments on which, from the first moment, the magnifying glass was put - and later it was accentuated before the little presence deployed by the minister - is the Ministry of Universities that leads

Manuel Castells

.

According to several answers provided by the Government to the PP, it has eight temporary staff positions: five as advisers and three as technical information advisers. The former receive a gross remuneration of 67,037.57 euros per year;

while the latter charge 60,730.29 euros gross per year.

The total amount of these advisers to the cabinet of the Minister of Universities amounts to 517,378.72 euros.

The Government: 55 million in advisers

As published this summer by the

Civio organization

, as of June 30, 2020, the coalition government of the

PSOE

and Unidos Podemos had 777 temporary, hand-hired personnel, usually advisers.

And according

calculations

of the Central Sindical Independiente y de Servants (CSIF), the most representative union in public administrations, the General State Administration allocates a total of 55,805,512.86 euros to advisers in 2020. "To these figures we should add the expense in advisers in the rest of the administrations, such as the councils, autonomous communities or town halls, "stated CSIF.

"With a similar investment, our hospitals and health centers could have 1,850 more doctors or 2,056 nurses; our schools 2,056 more teachers; and services such as SEPE, TGSS, our prisons or our courts could have 2,940 more employees." recently published that

Pedro Sanchez

he has

duplicate

the expense for its advisers in the Budgets: the accounts foresee an increase of 112% for high positions and eventual personnel of the Presidency (an amount of 1.33 million), which adduces a "technical" reason.

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