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A large number of political advisors, who occupy mid- and high-level management positions in public institutions, are moving to find a professional outlet. As El Confidencial Digital has learned from several headhunter agencies, a good part of these positions are turning to them to find a new job. Headhunting agencies are dedicated to scouring the market to find valuable managers, and now it is political advisors at management levels who turn to them. The insistence of some of these advisors has grown in recent months, as ECD has been able to confirm . This phenomenon occurs especially among advisors of the Popular Party, but also of other parties . They now see their jobs in danger and want to return to the private sector. Freely appointed personnel The main reason is the widespread belief that the “pruning” of public administrations prepared by the Rajoy Government is going to focus above all on the 20,000 freely appointed positions and not on civil servants. Last week ECD already reported that the central Executive has put its sights on the 11,000 advisors hired by autonomies, provincial councils and city councils. The Government plans to save more than 1,000 million euros in salaries with staff reductions in regional, provincial and local administrations, although staff hired by state institutions also fear being laid off again.
Fall in regional and local elections There is another piece of information. The drop in the Popular Party's voting intention in the main polls is also causing concern among advisors, especially those who work in regional, provincial and local Special Database institutions. There is just over a year left until the regional and local elections and the regional leadership of the PP fears suffering a sharp decline in the number of deputies and councilors , which would entail an additional pruning of advisors hired by popular parliamentary and municipal groups. The discrediting of politics does not help In addition to the cuts and the proximity of the elections, many of the advisors who are looking for another job do so out of fatigue with the deterioration of the political climate in Spain motivated by corruption scandals. However, the growing social animosity towards politicians also affects their advisors, often accused of having been appointed not by virtue of their merits. In fact, many companies , which a few years ago were looking to “sign” former advisors with contacts in high places as managers, are now rejecting them . According to the “headhunting” agencies that ECD has contacted , at the current time they prefer not to have employees with a very strong political profile . Right now, his past in politics does not help anything in the private sector.
Quite the opposite. Furthermore, these high-level advisors have salaries higher than the average salaries usually offered in other sectors, which once again makes it difficult for them to enter the labor market. One of the keys to the signing of Esperanza Aguirre This growing flow of resumes from PP advisors to management talent search agencies is one of the keys that, as this insider has learned, would explain the “ signing” of Esperanza Aguirre by one of these companies (Seelinger and Conde) in January of this year. The fact that there is a significant niche of former C-suite advisors now looking for work requires someone to place them. It is understood that Esperanza Aguirre , thanks to her influence and contacts, may have an easier time convincing companies that the signing of a former PP advisor is a good idea .King Juan Carlos arrived in Morocco yesterday with the intention of giving a definitive push to various business projects that Spanish firms have underway in North Africa. State policy issues related to the Interior or Justice will also be discussed. The delegation is accompanied by the Secretary of State for Commerce, Jaime García-Legaz ; the Government High Commissioner for Brand Spain, Carlos Espinosa de los Monteros , and the presidents of the main employers' associations, such as CEOE , Cepyme and the Superior Council of Chambers of Commerce.