Ministry of the Presidency (Spain)

Ministry of the Presidency of Spain Ministerio de la Presidencia de España
Incumbent Soraya Sáenz de Santamaría since 22 December 2011
Style	Señor (m) Señora (f)
Appointer	Mariano Rajoy
Inaugural holder	Luis Carrero Blanco
Formation	1951

The Ministry of the Presidency is the ministerial department of the Government of Spain which assures the link between the different Ministries and with the President of the Government.

Functions

The functions of the Minister of the Presidency are the following ones:

• All those that are entrusted to him by the President of the Government.
• The presidency of the General Commission of Secretaries of State and Undersecretaries of each Ministry.
• The secretariat of the Secretaries Commission
• The exercise of the generic functions of the ministerial post, foreseen on articles 12 and 13 of the Law 6/1997, of Organization and Functioning of the General Administration of the State, and on article 4 of the Law 50/1997, of the Government.

Organic structure

Under the Minister there are the following units:

• The Undersecretary of the Presidency
  • Technical Secretariat-Secretariat of the Government
  • DG Relations with the Delegations of the Government in the Autonomous Communities
• The Secretariat of State of Relations with the Parliament
  • DG Parliamentary Relations
• The Secretariat of State of Communication
  • DG Communication

Dependent organisms

• Boletín Oficial del Estado.
• Center of Sociological Investigations.
• Center of Political and Constitutional Studies.
• Patrimonio Nacional.

List of Ministers

• Governments of Francisco Franco (1936-1975)
  • (1951 - 1967): Luis Carrero Blanco – (1)
  • (1973 - 1974): José María Gamazo y Manglano – (1)
  • (1974 - 1975): Antonio Carro Martínez

• First Governments of the Monarchy (1975-1977)
  • (1975 - 1977): Alfonso Osorio García.

• 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

• II Legislature (1982 - 1986)
  • (1982 - 1986): Javier Moscoso del Prado, PSOE

• III Legislature (1986 - 1989) - Se denomina Ministerio de Relaciones con las Cortes y de la Secretaría del Gobierno.
  • (1986 - 1989): Virgilio Zapatero Gómez, PSOE

• IV Legislature (1989 - 1993) - Se denomina 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

• 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 -)
  • (2011 - ): Soraya Sáenz de Santamaría, PP

(1) Undersecretaries of the Presidency

References

• Spanish Cabinets at CSIC website

External links

• Ministry of the Presidency official website