The list of ministers: the new Sánchez Government, face by face

And the six survivors of the so-called ‘Beautiful Executive’ that Sánchez formed in the summer of 2018, after winning the motion of censure against Mariano Rajoy, continue: the vice presidents Nadia Calviño (Economy) and Teresa Ribera (Ecological Transition) and the ministers Margarita Robles ( Defense), Fernando Grande-Marlaska (Interior), Luis Planas (Agriculture) and María Jesús Montero (Treasury). The latter also rises when she assumes the fourth vice presidency.

The socialist wing of the Government includes the former mayors of Valladolid and Barcelona, ​​Óscar Puente (Transport) and Jordi Hereu (Industry), the former Canary Islands president Ángel Víctor Torres (Territorial Policy), Elma Saiz (Social Security) and Ana Redondo, who He will direct an Equality portfolio that returns to socialist hands.

On Sumar’s part, only Yolanda Díaz repeats as second vice president and Minister of Labor. Mónica García is in charge of Health, Pablo Bustinduy of Social Rights, Ernest Urtasun of Culture and Sira Rego of the new Childhood and Youth portfolio.

The Executive is again divided into 22 ministries, making it one of the most numerous in Europe. The coalition is divided between 17 portfolios in the hands of the socialists and another five in those of Sumar. There are nine new faces, two ministers who change portfolios and several redistributions of powers that move from one ministry to another.

Isabel Rodríguez leaves Territorial Policy, a department that Víctor Ángel Torres takes over, to direct Housing. José Luis Escriva hands over Social Security to Elma Saiz and goes on to head Digital Transformation, one of the newly created ministries along with Youth and Children and Housing. Sports will now depend on Education while Consumption will depend on Social Rights. Presidency and Justice merge under the leadership of Félix Bolaños and Diana Morant adds the powers of Universities to those of Science.

Since he became president of the Government on June 2, 2018 through a motion of censure against Mariano Rajoy, Pedro Sánchez has appointed 51 ministers, 42 of them in the last two terms alone, to which the nine newly appointed are now added. Of the total, 26 have been women and 25 men. The portfolios that have undergone the most changes during the last five years are Health, Justice, Foreign Affairs and Territorial Policy.

The average age of the new Executive is 52.7 years. The oldest of the ministers is the socialist Luis Planas, with 71, while the youngest is Pablo Bustinduy, who has 40 birthdays. The President of the Government is slightly below average at 51 years old. By party, the PSOE has an average of 57.7 years compared to 46.4 for Yolanda Díaz’s party.

The new Government of Pedro Sánchez has four vice-presidencies and 22 ministries and, like the previous one, five of them will be led by leaders of their alliance partners, in this case Sumar. It repeats as the second largest Government in democracy, only surpassed by the 26 members of the Executive that Adolfo Suárez presided between 1979 and 1981. As is now happening to Sánchez with the coalition, the leader of the UCD needed to stretch his cabinet to the maximum to give a voice in the Council of Ministers to a multitude of internal currents that existed in his party.