Second Deputy Prime Minister of Spain

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Second Deputy Prime Minister of Spain
Vicepresidencia Segunda del Gobierno de España
Constitution of 1978 (current)
Formation3 January 1974
(50 years ago) (1974-01-03)
First holderAntonio Barrera de Irimo

The second deputy prime minister of Spain, officially Second Vice President of the Government of Spain (

Constitution but is not a permanent position, existing only at the discretion of the Prime Minister
.

The current second deputy prime minister is Yolanda Díaz, who is also minister of Labour and Social Economy.

History

The office was established by the Organic Act of the State of 1967 which allowed for the creation of a Council of Ministers composed of the Prime Minister, one or more Deputy Prime Ministers and the Ministers.[1] However, it was not until 1974, one year after the dictator Francisco Franco split the office of head of government (prime minister) and head of state, that prime minister Arias Navarro appointed Antonio Barrera Irimo, Minister of Finance as second deputy prime minister.[2]

In Arias Navarro's second term, the Finance Minister Rafael Cabello de Alba was also appointed second deputy prime minister in October 1974.[3] During his third term, Arias Navarro appointed Minister of the Interior Manuel Fraga as second deputy prime minister.

Prime minister

Calvo-Sotelo
did the same.

Socialist PM

Minister of Territorial Policy and Civil Service, Manuel Chaves
as second deputy prime minister.

The conservative PM Mariano Rajoy did not appoint a second deputy prime minister. The subsequent prime minister Pedro Sánchez did not appoint in second deputy prime minister in his first government, but he did in his second term. In March 2021, after the resignation of Pablo Iglesias as second deputy prime minister, the tradition of appointing a minister of economic affairs as second deputy PM was resumed.[5] In July 2021, Labour and Social Economy Minister Yolanda Díaz was appointed as second deputy PM.

Powers

The office of second deputy prime minister does not possess special constitutional powers beyond its responsibility as a member of the

first deputy
is unable to fill the role.

List of officeholders

Office name:

  • Second Vice Presidency of the Government (1974–1975; 1977–1979; 1981–1982; 1996–2000; 2003–2011; 2020–present)
  • Vice Presidency of the Government for Interior Affairs (1975–1976)
  • Second Vice Presidency of the Government, in charge of the Coordination of the Economic Affairs (1979–1981)
  • Second Vice Presidency of the Government for Economic Affairs (2000–2003)
  • Vice Presidency of the Government for Territorial Policy (2011)
Portrait Name
(Birth–Death) 		Term of office Party Government Prime Minister
(Tenure) 		Ref.
Took office Left office Duration
Antonio Barrera de Irimo
(1929–2014) 		4 January
1974 		30 October
1974 		299 days National
Movement
(Nonpartisan) 		Arias Navarro I Carlos Arias Navarro

(1973–1976) 		[7]
[8]
Rafael Cabello de Alba
(1925–2010) 		30 October
1974 		12 December
1975 		1 year and 43 days National
Movement
(Nonpartisan) 		[9]
[10]
Manuel Fraga
(1922–2012) 		12 December
1975 		5 July
1976 		206 days National
Movement
(FEDISA) 		Arias Navarro II [11]
Alfonso Osorio
(1923–2018) 		8 July
1976 		5 July
1977 		362 days National
Movement
(UDE) 		Suárez I Adolfo Suárez

(1976–1981) 		[12]
[13]
Enrique Fuentes Quintana
(1924–2007) 		5 July
1977 		25 February
1978 		293 days Independent Suárez II [14]
[15]
Fernando Abril Martorell
(1936–1998) 		25 February
1978 		6 April
1979 		2 years and 197 days UCD [16]
[17]
[18]
6 April
1979 		9 September
1980 		Suárez III
Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo
(1926–2008) 		9 September
1980 		27 February
1981 		171 days UCD [19]
[20]
Office disestablished during this interval.
Juan Antonio García Díez
(1940–1998) 		2 December
1981 		30 July
1982 		240 days UCD Calvo-Sotelo Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo

(1981–1982) 		[21]
Office disestablished during this interval.
Rodrigo Rato
(born 1949) 		6 May
1996 		28 April
2000 		7 years and 121 days PP Aznar I José María Aznar

(1996–2004) 		[22]
[23]
[24]
28 April
2000 		4 September
2003 		Aznar II
Javier Arenas
(born 1957) 		4 September
2003 		18 April
2004 		227 days PP [25]
[26]
Pedro Solbes
(1942–2023) 		18 April
2004 		14 April
2008 		4 years and 354 days Independent Zapatero I José Luis
Rodríguez Zapatero

(2004–2011) 		[27]
[28]
[29]
14 April
2008 		7 April
2009 		Zapatero II
Elena Salgado
(born 1949) 		7 April
2009 		12 July
2011 		2 years and 96 days Independent [30]
[31]
Manuel Chaves
(born 1945) 		12 July
2011 		22 December
2011 		163 days PSOE [32]
[33]
Office disestablished during this interval.
Pablo Iglesias
(born 1978) 		13 January
2020 		31 March
2021 		1 year and 77 days Podemos Sánchez II Pedro Sánchez

(2018–present) 		[34]
[35]
Nadia Calviño
(born 1968) 		31 March
2021 		12 July
2021 		103 days Independent [36]
[37]
Yolanda Díaz
(born 1971) 		12 July
2021 		21 November
2023 		2 years and 288 days PCE [38]
[39]
SMR, PCE
21 November
2023 		Incumbent Sánchez III

See also

References

  1. ^ "Ley Orgánica del Estado, número 1/1967, de 10 de enero". www.boe.es. Retrieved 2019-08-29.
  2. ^ "Decree 1/1974, of January 3, by which the Vice Presidents of the Government are appointed". www.boe.es. Office of the Prime Minister. 3 January 1974. Retrieved 29 August 2019.
  3. ^ "Decree 2997/1974, of October 29, by which Rafael Cabello de Alba is appointed Second Vice President of the Government". boe.es. Retrieved 2019-08-29.
  4. ^ "Royal Decree 1606/1976, of July 7, by which Mr. Fernando de Santiago y Díaz de Mendívil and Mr. Alfonso Osorio García are appointed Deputy Prime Ministers". boe.es. Retrieved 2019-08-29.
  5. ^ "Sánchez reshuffles Cabinet to have 4 women in top jobs". ABC News. Retrieved 2021-03-31.
  6. ^ "Ley 50/1997, de 27 de noviembre, del Gobierno". Law No. 50 of 28 November 1997 (in Spanish). Retrieved 13 January 2020.
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