The Valencian government has removed the salary cap for senior officials of the Generalitat who come from the civil service and who stopped them from charging 15% more than the president himself, Carlos Mazón, despite maintaining his previous salaries.
From now on, regional advisors and secretaries “who meet the status of civil servants, including armed forces personnel and State Security Forces”, even if they are “in a reserve or retired situation”, they will be able to obtain a salary higher than 92,000 euros, since Mazón is located in the 80,173.92 per year -without supplements-, according to the transparency portal of the Generalitat.
It turns out that two reservists joined the Consell: Army Lieutenant General Francisco José Gan Pampols, as second vice president and advisor for economic and social recovery; and Army Brigadier General Venancio Aguado de Diego, as regional secretary of this department.
This regulatory amendment was introduced in the final provisions of a decree-law for extraordinary measures for the management, organization and mobility of public agents following DANA. The text was approved this Tuesday during the first meeting of the Regional Executive after the new councilors took office.
The Generalitat budget law for 2024 establishes that the remuneration of senior civil servants cannot be higher “as a whole and calculated annually” than that established for the president, “increased by 15 percent”. But the decree-law now adds that this limit “will not apply to the people who make up the Consell and at the level of the higher bodies of the departments”.
Asked about this, the first vice-president of the Generalitat, Susana Camarero, assured that the the unions “Not only were they present at the negotiation, they approved it.”
A measure to “integrate talents”
“Neither the salaries of the Consell nor those of senior civil servants are increased, only a civil servant is allowed who comes to serve at a time like this. do not lose your rights to remuneration. Taking into account the incorporation of the new technical profiles of the Consell, those who are civil servants or in the military career will be able to receive the remuneration that would correspond to them as a civil servant or military officer. Stop the hoaxes,” declared the regional president, the popular Carlos Mazón, on his X account.
He did this in response to strong criticism from the PSPV-PSOE and Compromís. The Socialists called the measure “immoral”, while the coalition called it “miserable”. The government delegate of the Valencian Community, Pilar Bernabé, also regretted that this gives “a bad image of politics and, of course, of institutions and administration.”
Sources from the Generalitat defend that this is an “exceptional measure to deal with an exceptional situation”. “We must integrate the talent, commitment and capacity to tackle the reconstruction, with technical profiles and trajectories and professionals who have performed in venues as large as the one we currently find in Valencia”, they emphasize.
Likewise, they add that the salaries of senior Valencian civil servants “are among the lowest in Spain, well below the autonomous regions such as Catalonia, Andalusia, Madrid or the Basque Country.”
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