The Enormous Number of Trust Positions the Government Adds in the Ministries

Advisors and Trusted Positions Emerge in Sánchez's Government. During the first eleven months of 2024, the Government allocated a budget of 147 million euros. All for the payment of salaries of high-ranking officials and advisors, without considering business expenses or incentives.

This figure represents the highest amount recorded in the historical series and signifies a 43% increase compared to the obligations recognized in the same period of 2018. Pedro Sánchez assumed office in June 2018 after a motion of no confidence against Mariano Rajoy. Since then, he has significantly increased the number of his trusted staff.

According to the State Secretariat for Public Function, at the end of last year, there were 799 high-ranking officials. This is 92 more than in the second half of 2018.

As for the advisors, who are directly appointed and receive salaries exceeding 70,000 euros, they totaled 795 at the end of June 2024. That is, 196 more than in the semester when Sánchez assumed the leadership of the Executive. However, this last figure shows notable differences compared to the data extracted from the State Administration's Job Position Relationship.

This record indicates that, at the end of 2024, the number of advisors and trusted staff of the Government rose to 1,217. This is 375 more compared to the official temporary statistics prepared semiannually by the Ministry for Digital Transformation and Public Function. Adding the high-ranking officials and advisors, based on the State's RPT, the total staff stood at 2,016 people.

Undoubtedly, a figure that has skyrocketed since Pedro Sánchez's arrival.

Something that is revealed at the most challenging time for the Government, where it has decided to shield itself, during these years, with high-ranking officials and advisors.

This Is How Begoña Gómez "Plugged" Cristina Álvarez into Moncloa

The 'Begoña Gómez' case, the wife of the Prime Minister, continues to be a scandal. The judicial investigation against Pedro Sánchez's wife has resulted in several indictments. Among these, that of a Presidency worker, Cristina Álvarez, who performed assistant duties for Begoña Gómez while being assigned to La Moncloa.

The investigation of the case has revealed a series of communications showing that Álvarez worked with the wife in her private businesses. Cristina Álvarez, director of programs of the General Secretariat of the Presidency of the Government, assured the judge that she arrived at La Moncloa after a call from Begoña Gómez.

According to her statement before Magistrate Juan Carlos Peinado, Pedro Sánchez's wife called her right after winning the motion of no confidence against Rajoy. Supposedly, and according to Cristina Álvarez's statement, Begoña Gómez called her to offer her the aforementioned position in the Presidency. It is important to emphasize that the job offer did not come from any high-ranking official at Moncloa; it was directly from Begoña Gómez.