Deputy Prime Minister of Spain
Deputy Prime Minister of Spain
Vicepresidente del Gobierno de España | |
---|---|
| |
Style | Excelentísimo/a Señor/a |
Member of | Cabinet |
Residence | Edificio Semillas, Palacio de la Moncloa |
Seat | Madrid, Spain |
Nominator |
The Monarch Countersigned by the Prime Minister of Spain |
Appointer | The Monarch |
Term length |
No fixed term No term limits are imposed on the office. |
Constituting instrument | Constitution of 1978 |
Formation | October 3, 1840 |
First holder | Agustín Muñoz Grandes |
Unofficial names | Deputy Prime Minister of Spain |
Salary | €75,744 p.a.[1] |
The Deputy Prime Minister of Spain, officially Vice President of the Government, (Spanish: Vicepresidente del Gobierno de España) is the second in command to the Prime Minister of Spain, filling in for when the Prime Minister is absent or incapable of exercising power. The person for the post is usually handpicked by the Prime Minister from the members of the Cabinet. When there are more than one vice president, they are called First Vice President, Second Vice President, etc. The Headquarters of the Vice Presidency of the Government of Spain is the Edificio Semillas, in La Moncloa Complex.
The current holder of the office of Deputy Prime Minister of the Government of Spain is Carmen Calvo since 7 June, 2018.
Official title
Being a constitutional monarchy, the government of Spain is headed by a prime minister but the official title in Spanish is Presidente del Gobierno, literally President of the Government. This can be confusing to foreigners and indeed is to many Spaniards, who sometimes translate the title into English as President. Therefore, the Spanish Vice President of the Government is actually the equivalent of a Deputy Prime Minister, not a Vice President.
Responsibilities
The Deputy Prime Minister of Spain is responsible for:[2]
- Advising the President of the Government (Prime Minister).
- Attending the Cabinet, the Delegated Commissions of the Government and the General Commission of Secretaries of State and Undersecretaries.
- Supporting the President of the Government, specially exercising the responsibilities in relation to preparing and tracking the Government Programme.
- Interministerial Coordinating given by current laws, the Government or the President.
- Attending the Government with its relationships with the General Courts.
- Preparing, carrying out and tracking the legislative programme of the Government and specially its parliamentary processing.
- Material supporting, economic, financial, personal and budgetary management and in general whatever responsibilities needed by the President and the Presidency of the Government's dependent bodies.
- Being the secretary at the Cabinet.
- Organising the territorial administration.
List of Deputy Prime Ministers of Spain
- Parties
Progressive Party
Radical Republican Party
Falange (FET–JONS)
Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD)
Socialist (PSOE)
People's Party (PP)
- Other factions
No. | Picture | Deputy Prime Minister | Took Office | Left Office | Prime Minister | Term | Party | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Joaquín María Ferrer y Cafranga[3] | 3 October 1840 | 10 May 1841 | Baldomero Espartero | 1st Espartero Govt | Progressive Party | |||
2 | Severiano Martínez Anido | 4 December 1925[4] | 31 January 1930[5] | Miguel Primo de Rivera | Primo de Rivera's dictatorship | Military | |||
3 | Diego Martínez Barrio | 23 December 1933[6] | 4 March 1934[7] | Alejandro Lerroux | Black years | Radical Republican Party | |||
4 | Francisco Gómez-Jordana Sousa | 1 February 1938[8] | 9 August 1939 | Francisco Franco | Franco's dictatorship | Military | |||
5 | Agustín Muñoz Grandes | 1962 | 1967 | ||||||
6 | Luis Carrero Blanco | 1967 | 1973 | ||||||
7 | Torcuato Fernández-Miranda | 1973 | 1974 | ||||||
8 | José García Hernández | 1974 | 1975 | ||||||
9 | Fernando de Santiago y Díaz | 1975 | 1976 | Carlos Arias Navarro | Transitional Governments | Military | |||
10 | Manuel Fraga | 1975 | 1976 | FET–JONS | |||||
11 | Juan-Miguel Villar Mir | 1976 | 1976 | ||||||
12 | Manuel Gutiérrez Mellado | 1977 | 1979 | Adolfo Suárez | Constituent Legislature | Military | |||
1979 | 1981 | 1st Legislature | |||||||
13 | Rodolfo Martín Villa | 1981 | 1982 | Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo | UCD | ||||
14 | Alfonso Guerra | 1982 | 1986 | Felipe González | 2nd Legislature | PSOE | |||
1986 | 1989 | 3rd Legislature | |||||||
1989 | 1991 | 4th Legislature | |||||||
15 | Narcís Serra | 1991 | 1993 | ||||||
1993 | 1996 | 5th Legislature | |||||||
16 | Francisco Álvarez-Cascos | 1996 | 2000 | José María Aznar | 6th Legislature | PP | |||
17 | Mariano Rajoy | 2000 | 2003 | 7th Legislature | |||||
18 | Rodrigo Rato | 2003 | 2004 | ||||||
19 | María Teresa Fernández de la Vega | 2004 | 2008 | José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero | 8th Legislature | PSOE | |||
2008 | 2010 | 9th Legislature | |||||||
20 | Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba | 2010 | 2011 | ||||||
21 | Elena Salgado | 2011 | 2011 | ||||||
22 | Soraya Sáenz de Santamaría | 2011 | 2015 | Mariano Rajoy | 10th Legislature | PP | |||
2015 | 2016 | 11th Legislature | |||||||
2016 | 2018 | 12th Legislature | |||||||
23 | Carmen Calvo | 2018 | Incumbent | Pedro Sánchez | 12th Legislature | PSOE |
See also
References
- ↑ "The salaries of the Government" (in Spanish). El Pais.
- ↑ Royal Decree 199/2012, 23th January, for explaining the structure of the Ministry of the Presidency and changing the Royal Decree 1887/2011, 30th December, for establishing the structure of the ministerial departments (in Spanish)
- ↑ "Juan Tomás Joaquín María Ferrer Cafranga | Real Academia de la Historia". dbe.rah.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 2018-10-05.
- ↑ "Real decreto nombrando Vicepresidente del Consejo de Ministros a D. Severiano Martínez Anido, Ministro de la Gobernación" (PDF).
- ↑ "Real decreto admitiendo la dimisión del cargo de Vicepresidente del Consejo de Ministros y Ministro de la Gobernación a D. Severiano Martínez Anido" (PDF).
- ↑ "Decreto nombrando vicepresidente del Consejo de Ministros a D. Diego Martínez Barrio" (PDF).
- ↑ "Decreto admitiendo a don Diego Martínez Barrio la dimisión del cargo de Vicepresidente del Consejo de Ministros" (PDF).
- ↑ "Decreto núm. 453 nombrando Ministro de Vicepresidente del Gobierno de la Nación al Teniente General D. Francisco Gómez Jordana y Sousa" (PDF).