Ministry of Territorial Policy
Ministerio de Política Territorial y Memoria Democrática | |
Palace of Villamejor, headquarters of the Ministry | |
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Formed | April 5, 1979 (as Ministry for Territorial Administration) June 7, 2018 (as Ministry of Territorial Policy and Civil Service) |
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Type | Ministry |
Jurisdiction | Government of Spain |
Headquarters | Palace of Villamejor, Madrid |
Annual budget | € 590 million, 2023[1] |
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Website | www.mptfp.gob.es(in Spanish) |
The Ministry of Territorial Policy and Democratic Memory (MPTMD), is the department of the Government of Spain which manages the policies of the government regarding relations and cooperation with the Autonomous Communities and with the entities that integrate the Local Administration and those related to the territorial organization of the country and with the Government Delegations and Sub-Delegations in the regions and provinces.[2]
The MPTFP is also in charge of the proposal and carrying out the government policy in matters of civil service, public employment and training of public employees; of governance and organization of the General State Administration; of procedures and inspection of services; of transparency and open government; of the development and monitoring of programs to improve public management and the quality of services.
Likewise, it is responsible for the Digital Administration policy, as well as the coordination of the process of rationalization of information and communication technologies in the field of the General State Administration and its public agencies, and the promotion of e-Government. through the shared provision of the Common Service of Information and Communication Systems; It is also responsible for establishing the necessary provisions and guidelines for its operation.[2]
History
This Ministry was created for the first time in 1979 after the approval of the
Previously, between 1977 and 1979 there was the figure of the Assistant Ministry of the Regions which, led by Manuel Clavero, developed the pre-autonomy agreements of the various regions and nationalities of Spain.[4]
Initially it was endowed with a small structure, composed of a Undersecretariat, a Technical General Secretariat and two Directorates-General: Cooperation with Autonomous Regimes and Local Cooperation, this last transferred from the Ministry of the Interior.[5]
In the words of Prime Minister Adolfo Suárez before the Congress of Deputies on 18 April 1979:
The Deputy Minister for the Regions has been removed in order to create from the Ministry of the Interior a new Ministry for Territorial Administration of the State that has clear and specific competences, completely absent from any other relationship with matters of public order in the relations with the City Councils, in the relations with the Provincial Councils and in the relations with the Autonomous Communities, from the perspective of the constitutional mandate of the autonomies that correspond to each one of these
— Adolfo Suárez, 18 April 1979
One year later, and with the aim of strengthening the administrative structures that facilitated the process of devolution to the Autonomous Communities, the Secretary of State for the Autonomous Communities, the Secretary of State for Local Corporations and the Directorate-General for Autonomic Development were created.
After the arrival of the Socialist Workers' Party to the Government, in 1983 the Ministry was again the object of remodeling. The Secretary of State for Local Corporations disappeared and four Directorates-General were established: Autonomic Development; Cooperation with the Autonomous Communities; Local Management; and Local Cooperation.
The great reshuffle takes place, nevertheless, in 1986, when the department is renamed «for the Public Administrations» and receives powers on Civil Service and Administrative Modernization that until that moment exerted the
A new extension of powers took place in 1997, as a consequence of the approval of the Law 6/1997, of April 14, of Organization and Functioning of the General State Administration, which organically assigns to it the Government Delegations (until then dependents from Interior).
These three areas of activity (Relationship with Autonomous and Local Administrations, Civil Service, and coordination of the Government Delegations) have remained as the competence axis of the department, except for the period 2009–2010, in which the last two passed temporarily to the Ministry of the Presidency. These three areas of work (Relations with Autonomous and Local Administrations, Civil Service, and coordination of the Government Delegations) have remained as the responsibilities axis of the department, except for the period 2009–2010, in which the last two passed temporarily to the Ministry of the Presidency.
Since December 22, 2011, the powers of this department were integrated into the
Organization chart
The current structure of the Ministry is:[7]
- The Secretariat of State for Territorial Policy
- The General Secretariat for Territorial Coordination
- The Directorate-General for Regional and Local Cooperation
- The Directorate-General for Regional and Local Legal Regime
- The Directorate-General for the General State Administration in the Territory
- The General Secretariat for Territorial Coordination
- The Secretariat of State for Democratic Memory
- The Directorate-General for Attention to Victims and Promotion of Democratic Memory
- The Undersecretariat
- The Technical General Secretariat
- The Special Commissioner for the Reconstruction of the island of La Palma
List of officeholders
Office name:
- Ministry of Territorial Administration (1979–1986)
- Ministry for Public Administrations (1986–2009)
- Ministry of Territorial Policy (2009–2010; 2021–2023)
- Ministry of Territorial Policy and Public Administrations (2010–2011)
- Ministry of Territorial Policy and Civil Service (2016–2021)
- Ministry of Territorial Policy and Democratic Memory (2023–)
Portrait | Name (Birth–Death) |
Term of office | Party | Government | Prime Minister (Tenure) |
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Took office | Left office | Duration | ||||||||
Antonio Fontán (1923–2010) |
6 April 1979 |
3 May 1980 |
1 year and 27 days | UCD | Suárez III | Adolfo Suárez (1976–1981) |
[8] [9] | |||
José Pedro Pérez-Llorca (1940–2019) |
3 May 1980 |
9 September 1980 |
129 days | UCD | [10] [11] | |||||
Rodolfo Martín Villa (born 1934) |
9 September 1980 |
27 February 1981 |
1 year and 84 days | UCD | [12] [13] [14] | |||||
27 February 1981 |
2 December 1981 |
Calvo-Sotelo | Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo (1981–1982) | |||||||
Rafael Arias-Salgado (born 1942) |
2 December 1981 |
30 July 1982 |
240 days | UCD | [15] [16] | |||||
Luis Cosculluela (born 1939) |
30 July 1982 |
3 December 1982 |
126 days | Independent | [17] [18] | |||||
Tomás de la Quadra-Salcedo (born 1946) |
3 December 1982 |
5 July 1985 |
2 years and 214 days | PSOE | González I | Felipe González (1982–1996) |
[19] [20] | |||
Félix Pons (1942–2010) |
5 July 1985 |
14 July 1986 (renounced) |
1 year and 9 days | PSOE | [21] [22] | |||||
Javier Moscoso (ordinary discharge of duties) (born 1934) |
14 July 1986 |
26 July 1986 |
12 days | Independent | [22] | |||||
Joaquín Almunia (born 1948) |
26 July 1986 |
7 December 1989 |
4 years and 230 days | PSOE | González II | [23] [24] [25] | ||||
7 December 1989 |
13 March 1991 |
González III | ||||||||
Juan Manuel Eguiagaray (born 1945) |
13 March 1991 |
14 July 1993 |
2 years and 123 days | PSOE | [26] [27] | |||||
Jerónimo Saavedra (1936–2023) |
14 July 1993 |
3 July 1995 |
1 year and 354 days | PSOE | González IV | [28] [29] | ||||
Joan Lerma (born 1951) |
3 July 1995 |
6 May 1996 |
308 days | PSOE | [30] [31] | |||||
Mariano Rajoy (born 1955) |
6 May 1996 |
19 January 1999 |
2 years and 258 days | PP | Aznar I | José María Aznar (1996–2004) |
[32] [33] | |||
Ángel Acebes (born 1958) |
19 January 1999 |
28 April 2000 |
1 year and 100 days | PP | [34] [35] | |||||
Jesús Posada (born 1945) |
28 April 2000 |
10 July 2002 |
2 years and 73 days | PP | Aznar II | [36] [37] | ||||
Javier Arenas (born 1957) |
10 July 2002 |
4 September 2003 |
1 year and 56 days | PP | [38] [39] | |||||
Julia García-Valdecasas (1944–2009) |
4 September 2003 |
18 April 2004 |
227 days | PP | [40] [41] | |||||
Jordi Sevilla (born 1956) |
18 April 2004 |
9 July 2007 |
3 years and 82 days | PSOE | Zapatero I | José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero (2004–2011) |
[42] [43] | |||
Elena Salgado (born 1949) |
9 July 2007 |
14 April 2008 |
1 year and 272 days | Independent | [44] [45] [46] | |||||
14 April 2008 |
7 April 2009 |
Zapatero II | ||||||||
Manuel Chaves (born 1945) |
7 April 2009 |
22 December 2011 |
2 years and 259 days | PSOE | [47] [48] [49] | |||||
Office disestablished during this interval.[a] | ||||||||||
Meritxell Batet (born 1973) |
7 June 2018 |
20 May 2019 (renounced) |
347 days | PSC–PSOE | Sánchez I | Pedro Sánchez (2018–present) |
[50] [51] | |||
Luis Planas (ordinary discharge of duties) (born 1952) |
20 May 2019 |
13 January 2020 |
238 days | PSOE | [52] | |||||
Carolina Darias (born 1965) |
13 January 2020 |
27 January 2021 |
1 year and 14 days | PSOE | Sánchez II | [53] [54] | ||||
Miquel Iceta (born 1960) |
27 January 2021 |
12 July 2021 |
166 days | PSC–PSOE | [55] [56] | |||||
Isabel Rodríguez (born 1981) |
12 July 2021 |
21 November 2023 |
2 years and 132 days | PSOE | [57] [58] | |||||
Ángel Víctor Torres (born 1966) |
21 November 2023 |
Incumbent | 150 days | PSOE | Sánchez III | [59] |
Notes
- ^ The department's competences were transferred to the Ministry of Finance and Ministry of the Presidency between 2011 and 2016.
References
- ^ "2023 State Budget" (PDF). www.boe.es. 1 January 2023. Retrieved 8 January 2021.
- ^ a b c "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. Retrieved 2019-04-20.
- ^ "Royal Decree 999/1979, of April 27, on the organization of the Ministry of Territorial Administration". www.boe.es. Retrieved 2019-04-20.
- ^ Rodríguez, Chema (14 June 2021). "Manuel Clavero, 'café para todos' y coherencia política y vital". El Mundo.
- ISSN 1134-6582. Retrieved 2019-04-20.
- ISSN 1134-6582. Retrieved 2019-04-20.
- ^ "Royal Decree 139/2020, of January 28, which establishes the basic organic structure of the ministerial departments". boe.es. Retrieved 2020-01-30.
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