Ministry of the Presidency
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Centro de Estudios Políticos y Constitucionales | |
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The Ministry of the Presidency (MPR) was the department of the Government of Spain that, from 1974 to 2023, assured the link between the different Ministries and the Prime Minister and it was responsible for the relations between the Government and the Parliament.[2] This department also supported The Crown in the exercise of its functions.
In this sense, it was responsible for coordinating the matters of institutional relevance; preparing, carrying out and tracking the legislative program; supporting the Prime Minister; supporting the
As a supportive department of the Prime Minister, it assumed the functions of giving material, economic, budgetary and personnel support and, in general, as many others of this nature require the Premier and the bodies dependent on the
At the same time, the Presidency Minister exercised the rol of secretary of the Council of Ministers, signing the minutes of each meeting of the Council as Minister-Secretary of the Council of Ministers.
In November 2023, the department was merged with the Ministry of Justice, creating the current Ministry of the Presidency, Justice and Relations with the Cortes.
History
Origin
The background of the coordination work of the different areas of governmental action exercised by the current Ministry of the Presidency can be track down in the resolution of 30 November 1714, which, under the reign of Philip V, the Cabinet Council was created.[3]
For the establishment of the
Assistance to the prime minister
Despite this, some gestures already announced the future birth of a support structure for the Prime Minister, which would lead to an independent Ministry. Thus, by Royal Decree of 30 September 1851, a Directorate-General was created that assisted the President of the Council of Ministers (Prime Minister) in the management of overseas affairs,[5] and that would be the embryo of the future Ministry of the Presidency.
It was also created, the position of the Assistant Secretary of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers, however in its origins had no relationship with the functions of Secretariat of the Government until 1871. At the beginning of the 1890s, the structure of the Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Presidency was remodeled, assigning functions of relationship with the constitutional bodies and with regard to appointments and dismissals.[4]
In the 20th century, the position became known as the Administrative Office of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers (1926), recovering that of Assistant Secretary of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers by virtue of the Royal Decree of 4 February 1930. This designation kept under the Second Republic. It is that time, the figure without especially specific functions, performs tasks as different as those derived from being the Technical Secretariat for Morocco and Colonies and for the National Tourist Board.
Under the Franco regime was confirmed by Decree of August 11, 1939 the existence of the Assistant Secretary of the Presidency, and Luis Carrero Blanco was appointed it. According to the Law of 22 December 1948, the Office of the Assistant Secretary was a special Department that would be in charge of the General Policy and Coordination services.
Ministry
It would be in 1951, through the Decree-Law of July 19 when the Assistant Secretary of the Presidency was given the rank of Minister and with the Legal Regime of the State Administration Act (1957) it was granted to it the function of Secretariat of the Government, as well as preside over the Commissions of Undersecretaries.[6] During the 1950s and 1960s, the Ministry of the Presidency was the driving force behind the administrative reforms underway.[7]
In 1957 he was assigned the
In 1967 it coincided for the first time the positions of Minister of the Presidency (at the time Minister-Undersecretary) and
In spite of the existence of an entire Office since 1951 at the service of the Minister-Undersecretary of the Presidency (or Minister-Assistant Secretary), the Ministry was officially created by a Law of 2 January 1974.
Democracy
The most relevant responsibilities assumed during this period were those derived from the relations between the executive branch and the legislative branch because of the
In 1977 the Directorate-General for Territorial Action and Environment was transferred to the
With the creation of the
As a consequence of the social alarm provoked by the Prestige Disaster, in the 2003–2004 period a Commissioner was created for actions resulting from the catastrophe of the MV Prestige, with the rank of Secretary of State, supported by the Office of the Commissioner and functionally dependent on the Minister of the Presidency. The position was occupied by Rodolfo Martín Villa. The successor of this body the Center for the Prevention and Fight against Maritime and Coastal Pollution was included in the structure of the Ministry, with the rank of Directorate-General and whose competences passed in 2008 to the Ministry of Environment.
In 2012, the National Intelligence Centre was integrated in the Ministry[11] and in 2013 it was created the Office for the Implementation of the Administration Reform (OPERA).[12]
Since November 2016, it assumes the responsibilities of relations with the
In 2020, the ministry's powers over equality policies are transferred to the
was appointed minister of the Presidency.Structure
The Ministry of the Presidency was organised in the following superior bodies:[14]
- The Secretariat of State for Relations with the Cortes and Constitutional Affairs.
- The Directorate-General for Relations with the Cortes.
- The Deputy Directorate-General for Legislative Coordination.
- The Deputy Directorate-General for Parliamentary Initiatives.
- The Deputy Directorate-General for Written Control.
- The Deputy Directorate-General for Parliamentary Documentation.
- The Directorate-General for Constitutional Affairs and Legal Coordination.
- The Deputy Directorate-General for Constitutional Regime.
- The Directorate-General for Relations with the Cortes.
- The Secretariat of State for Democratic Memory.
- The Directorate-General for Democratic Memory.
- The Deputy Directorate-General for Assistance to Victims of the Civil War and the Dictatorship.
- The Division for Administrative Coordination and Institutional Relations.
- The Directorate-General for Democratic Memory.
- The Undersecretariat of the Presidency, Relations with the Cortes and Democratic Memory.
- The Technical General Secretariat-Government Secretariat.
- The Directorate-General for Services
- The Technical Cabinet.
- The Deputy Directorate-General for Religious Freedom.
- The Special Commissioner for the Reconstruction of the island of La Palma, with rank of Under-Secretary.
- The Office of the Special Commissioner for the Reconstruction of the island of La Palma.
From the ministry also depended other public agencies and bodies:
- Boletín Oficial del Estado.
- Patrimonio Nacional
- Centro de Estudios Políticos y Constitucionales.
- Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas.
List of ministers
- Governments of Francisco Franco (1936–1975)
- (1951–1967): Luis Carrero Blanco — (1)
- (1973–1974): José María Gamazo — (1)
- (1974–1975): Antonio Carro Martínez
- First Governments of the Monarchy (1975–1977)
- (1975–1977): Alfonso Osorio
- Constituency Legislature (1977–1979)
- (1977–1979): José Manuel Otero Novas, UCD
- I Legislature (1979–1982)
- (1979–1980): José Pedro Pérez-Llorca Rodrigo, UCD
- (1980–1981): Rafael Arias-Salgado Montalvo, UCD
- (1981): Pío Cabanillas Gallas, UCD
- (1981–1982): Matías Rodríguez Inciarte, UCD
- (1979–1980):
- II Legislature (1982–1986)
- (1982–1986): Javier Moscoso del Prado, PSOE
- III Legislature (1986–1989), called Ministerio de Relaciones con las Cortes y de la Secretaría del Gobierno.
- (1986–1989): Virgilio Zapatero Gómez, PSOE
- IV Legislature (1989–1993), called Ministerio de Relaciones con las Cortes.
- (1992–1993): Virgilio Zapatero Gómez, PSOE
- V Legislature (1993–1996)
- (1995–1996): Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba, PSOE
- VI Legislature (1996–2000)
- (1996–2000): Francisco Álvarez-Cascos Fernández, PP
- VII Legislature (2000–2004)
- (2000–2001): Mariano Rajoy Brey, PP
- (2001–2002): Juan José Lucas Giménez, PP
- (2002–2003): Mariano Rajoy Brey, PP
- (2003–2004): Javier Arenas Bocanegra, PP
- (2000–2001):
- VIII Legislature (2004–2008)
- (2004–2008): María Teresa Fernández de la Vega, PSOE
- IX Legislature (2008–2011)
- (2008–2010): María Teresa Fernández de la Vega, PSOE
- (2010–2011): Ramón Jáuregui, PSOE
- X Legislature (2011–2016)
- (2011–2016): Soraya Sáenz de Santamaría, PP
- XI Legislature (2016)
- (2016): Soraya Sáenz de Santamaría, PP — (2)
- XII Legislature (2016–present)
- (2016–2018): Soraya Sáenz de Santamaría, PP — (2)
- (2018–2021): Carmen Calvo Poyato, PSOE — (3/4)
- (2021–present): Félix Bolaños, PSOE (4)(5)
(1) Undersecretaries of the Presidency
(2) Minister of the Presidency and for the Territorial Administrations
(3) Minister of the Presidency, Relations with the Cortes and Equality
(4) Minister of the Presidency, Relations with the Cortes and Democratic Memory
(5) Minister of the Presidency, Justice and Relations with the Cortes
References
- ^ "2023 State Budget" (PDF). www.boe.es. 1 January 2023. Retrieved 8 January 2023.
- ^ a b c d "Royal Decree 373/2020, of February 18, which develops the basic organic structure of the Ministry of the Presidency, Relations with the Cortes and Democratic Memory". boe.es. Retrieved 2020-02-19.
- ^ "Portada del Archivo Histórico Nacional". censoarchivos.mcu.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 2019-04-20.
- ^ a b García Fernández, Javier. Secretariado del Gobierno y Coordinación del trabajo gubernamental. Notas de Derecho comparado y de Derecho español (PDF).
- ^ "Royal decree creating the Directorate-General for Overseas in the Presidency of the Council of Ministers" (PDF).
- ^ "Decree-law of July 19, 1951 by which the Central Administration of the State is reorganized" (PDF).
- Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. Archived from the original(PDF) on 2011-11-08.
- ^ Pascual Bermejo, Raúl. El uso de las fuentes documentales para el estudio de la Administración Pública durante la transición (PDF).
- ^ "Administrative Reorganization Act of 1974". www.boe.es. Retrieved 2019-04-20.
- ^ "Royal Decree 1015/1979, of April 27, by which the Ministry of the Presidency is restructured". www.boe.es. Retrieved 2019-04-20.
- ^ "BOE.es - Documento BOE-A-2012-1033". www.boe.es. Retrieved 2019-04-20.
- ^ "Royal Decree 479/2013, of June 21, by which the Office for the implementation of the Administration reform is created". www.boe.es. Retrieved 2019-04-20.
- ^ "Royal Decree 816/2018, of July 6, which develops the basic organizational structure of the Ministry of the Presidency, Relations with the Courts and Equality". boe.es. 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.