Madrid, January 31, 2025.- The Minister for Digital Transformation and Public Service, Óscar López, has updated the figures of the public employment stabilization process, which already reaches 332,613 places, exceeding the commitment to Europe set in the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan (PRTR). “The education sector and the health sector, key to sustaining our Welfare State, are those that have benefited most from this stabilization process,” said López during his speech in the Senate Civil Service Committee to present the general lines of action of his department.
In the field of public employment, the minister also highlighted the call for 1,000 places for qualified national workers this month of March: “We are talking about hundreds of secretaries, treasurers and auditors who will join numerous municipalities,” said López, who recalled that in this call, the Autonomous Communities that request it will be able to carry out in their territories the processes of selection, access tests and selective course of these officials through the signing of a collaboration agreement with the General Administration of the State.
Open government
The minister reviewed the status of the Consensus for an Open Administration plan, a “country agreement” that builds on the strategic axes of transparency, public participation and accountability; investment in public sector capacities and openness to citizenship. He also stressed that the Action Plan for Democracy, which was approved four months ago, has already been implemented in 30% of its contents, with 5 initiatives implemented and 4 in advanced level of development.
Regarding Spain’s co-presidency of the Alliance for Open Government, which will culminate in the celebration of the IX Summit for Open Government in the city of Vitoria next October, the minister has reported on the constitutive meeting of the organizing committee of this international event, which took place last Wednesday. López also explained to the senators that during the Vitoria summit the Open Government Strategy of Spain will be presented, whose objective is to materialize the recommendations of the OECD in transparency, public participation and accountability, and that progress continues in the elaboration of the Fifth Open Government Plan, “which we hope to be able to present soon”.
On the normative production for the coming months, the minister recalled the pioneering nature of the Law of Transparency and Integrity of the activities of the Interest Groups, whose draft approved last Tuesday the Council of Ministers and which “will allow us to take a great step forward in terms of good governance and transparency, equating us with the most advanced democracies of our environment”. He has also stressed that the Government will study the Preliminary Draft Law on Open Administration in the second half of this year, that a new Civil Service Law will be approved, and that in the coming months the Law for the Transformation of Administration will be sent to the Council of Ministers.