The first government of Pedro Sánchez was formed on 7 June 2018, following the latter's election as Prime Minister of Spain by the Congress of Deputies on 1 June and his swearing-in on 2 June, as a result of the success of a motion of no confidence against Mariano Rajoy . It succeeded the second Rajoy government and was the Government of Spain from 7 June 2018 to 13 January 2020, a total of 585 days, or 1 year, 7 months and 6 days.
19-458: (Redirected from Sánchez Government ) The term Sánchez government may refer to: First government of Pedro Sánchez , the government of Spain under Pedro Sánchez from 2018 to 2020. Second government of Pedro Sánchez , the government of Spain under Pedro Sánchez from 2020 to 2023. Third government of Pedro Sánchez , the government of Spain under Pedro Sánchez from 2023. Topics referred to by
38-814: A department. As of 2024, there are currently 22 ministerial departments. The Ministers or Government Ministers (historically Ministers of the Crown) are, after the Prime Minister and the Deputy Prime Ministers , the highest officials of the State Administration and together they form the Government of the Nation , which main decision-making-body is the Council of Ministers . The ministers are appointed and dismissed by
57-514: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages First government of Pedro S%C3%A1nchez The cabinet comprised members of the PSOE (including its sister party, the Socialists' Party of Catalonia , PSC) and a number of independents . It was nicknamed as the "beautiful government" ( Spanish : gobierno bonito ) by the media, because its composition
76-575: The Monarch at the proposal of the Prime Minister. Both appointment and dismissal, to be effective, must to be published at the Official State Gazette , although exists some specific cases, previous to the approval of the 1997 Government Act, which dismissal was not published. Those cases are Manuel Gutiérrez Mellado , minister without portfolio between 1976 and 1977 and Francisco Fernández Ordóñez , minister of Justice from 1980 to 1981. Unlike
95-523: The Prime Minister and all of them are headed by a Cabinet member called Minister. Although the main organization is established by the Premier, the ministers have autonomy to organize its own department and to appoint the high-ranking officials of the ministries. It exists the possibility of ministers without portfolio , which are minister-level officials entrusted with a specific task and that do not head
114-482: The ministerial department . Spanish government departments The Spanish government departments , commonly known as Ministries , are the main bodies through which the Government of Spain exercise its executive authority . They are also the top level of the General State Administration . The ministerial departments and their organization are created by Royal Decree signed by the Monarch and
133-642: The portfolio temporarily or to replace a minister in a specific matter. The substitution for "delivery" of the minister of Defense Carme Chacón in May 2008. She used her right to maternity leave and her responsibilities were temporary assumed by the Interior Minister, Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba . These have been the ministers without portfolio that have existed since the transition to democracy : Ministries may have Secretariats of State and, exceptionally, General Secretariats (with rank of undersecretariat) for
152-520: The Government Act allowed the Prime Minister to approve a Royal Decree ( secondary legislation ) designing the government structure. Currently, the Prime Minister only creates the Ministries and some of the highest bodies (like secretariats of State and Undersecretariats) while the principal internal organization is delegated into the ministers, which develop the structure of the bodies created by
171-528: The Government, meet in the following collective bodies: The substitution of the ministers must be determined by a Royal Decree of the Prime Minister, and always has to fall on another member of the Government. The Royal Decree must express the cause and character of the substitution. Since the entry into force of the Government Act in December 1997, substitutions have taken place on many occasions, either to assume
190-464: The Premier or create new ones. The order of the Minister is also a royal decree signed the Monarch and countersigned by the minister responsible for the public administration at the proposal of the competent minister. The lowest bodies such as deputy directorates-general are created by a Ministerial Order (ranked below the royal decree) of the competent minister. The ministers are the superior heads of
209-484: The department and direct hierarchical superiors of the secretaries of State. The executive bodies depend on the previous ones and they are hierarchically ordered among themselves in the following way: undersecretary, director general and deputy director general. The general secretaries have the rank of undersecretary and the technical general secretaries have the rank of director general. Ministerial hierarchy: The current Cabinet —the third government of Pedro Sánchez —
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#1732891307563228-606: The management of a sector of administrative activity. The executive bodies that are assigned to them are hierarchically dependent on them. The ministries have, in any case, an Undersecretariat and, depending on it, a General Technical Secretariat for the management of common services ( HR , budget, assets, websites, security...). On the other hand are the Directorates-General , which are the management bodies of one or several functionally homogeneous areas. The directorates-general are organized in deputy directorates-general for
247-404: The management of the competences entrusted to it. However, deputy directorates-general may be directly attached to other higher level management bodies or to higher bodies of the ministry. Before of the approval of the 1997 Government Act, the Ministries and Secretariats of State had to be created by law, normally by a direct law passed by the Government in the form of Royal Decree-Law . After,
266-499: The next government was sworn in. Sánchez's first government saw a number of cabinet changes during its tenure: From 29 April 2019, Sánchez's cabinet took on acting duties for the duration of the government formation process resulting from the April 2019 general election. This lasted for an estimated 259 days and saw a new general election being held in the meantime. A number of ministers renounced their posts throughout this period, with
285-513: The ordinary duties of their ministries being transferred to other cabinet members as a result of Sánchez being unable to appoint replacements while in acting role. The Council of Ministers was structured into the offices for the prime minister , the deputy prime minister , 17 ministries and the post of the spokesperson of the Government . Pedro Sánchez's first government was organised into several superior and governing units, whose number, powers and hierarchical structure varied depending on
304-586: The parliamentary vote of the 2019 General State Budget bill, prompting Sánchez to dissolve the Cortes and call a snap election ; as a result, this was the shortest government since the Spanish transition to democracy —not counting acting periods—lasting for 10 months before an election was held. It was automatically dismissed on 29 April 2019 as a consequence of the April 2019 general election , but remained in acting capacity until
323-399: The portfolio ministers, the dismissal of ministers without portfolio entails the extinction of all the ministerial structure that supports them. According to the Government Act, the ministers, as heads of their departments, have competence and responsibility in the specific sphere of their actions, and they are responsible for exercising the following functions: The ministers, as members of
342-433: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Sánchez government . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sánchez_government&oldid=1188169890 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
361-411: Was purposely leaked in a slow cascade of surprise, well-received announcements in the days prior to its formation in order to heighten the positive media coverage on the new appointments. It also became the government with the most female ministers in the country's history and in the world at the time, with 11 out of 17 ministries held by women or 64.7% of the total. The government was defeated in
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