Ignacio Camacho: Human Resources – kudupinter World News Network

In the case of the leaks from the State Attorney General, we Spaniards learned that the head of the cabinet of the President of the Government also had a female chief of staff, and it is not known if she had her own boss. … of cabinet but one or more deputy directors, heads of unit, general secretaries, directors and department secretaries, and so on up to a list of advisers, consultants and subordinates in numbers impossible to specify but in no case less than seven hundred. One of them was Francisco “Paco” Salazar, the man who his subordinates said walked around the Presidency offices with his fly half-zipped after going to the bathroom. Salazar was head of a sort of institutional coordination cell or something like that, a position of great proximity to the leader due to the function of presenting him with strategic reports suitably arranged to facilitate his understanding.

In addition, this modern “braghettone” exercised an influential role alongside Santos Cerdán, which placed him as a privileged collaborator in the party structure, of which he enjoyed the reputation of knowing in depth all the ins and outs. The “right arm” of the former secretary of the organization, headline the newspapers. Well, now we learn that the right hand man had another right hand man in Moncloa, that of Antonio Hernández whom the boss ordered to leave to appease the anger of feminism. It is not known whether Hernández also had another right-hand man in this echelon of people without a specific role who surrounds the leader and apparently provides him with essential services. But if you follow the thread of the right hand upwards – Hernández, Salazar, Cerdán – it is easy to reach the heart and head of the organism. That is to say, giving a first and last name to the person who occupies the center of this circle of praetorians distributed in a confused magma of administrative positions.

Between the right and left hands can be composed an anatomical puzzle of sanchismo, like those that we still see in the consultation rooms of certain health centers. Ábalos and Koldo, Cerdán and Salazar, López and Hernando, or more recently Rubio and Bolaños. Colonels of a political army whose bureaucratic apparatus consumes between seventy and seventy-five million salaries each year. No president has ever had such an extensive civil service network or such a large budget. Any citizen can wonder, in view of the results, what is the use and purpose of this very extensive apparatus, whose sections – Political Planning, Speech and Message, Institutional Coordination, Analysis and Studies – suggest more attention to electoral strategy than to questions of high state management. What is clear from recent scandals is that the primary culprit is a failed human resources director.

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