Politics
Half a century of State Secretaries: the power behind power
The next year is the 50th anniversary of the creation of the figure of the Secretary of State. A powerful institution unpublished in the Spanish administration, arising from the gossip of Adolfo Suárez and which all governments have maintained. Today they are true deputy ministers, a technical-political hinge whose function is to make electoral programmes a reality. Few know them. They don't decide, they run. One in ten comes to minister