Secretary of State for Defence | |
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Secretario de Estado de Defensa | |
Ministry of Defence | |
Style | The Most Excellent (formal) Mr./Ms. Secretary of State (informal) |
Abbreviation | SEDEF |
Reports to | Minister of Defence |
Seat | Ministry of Defence HQ, Paseo de la Castellana no. 109 |
Nominator | Minister of Defence |
Appointer | The King |
Term length | No fixed term |
Constituting instrument | Royal Decree 135/1984 |
Precursor | Undersecretary of Defence |
Formation | January 25, 1984 |
First holder | Eduardo Serra Rexach |
Salary | € 113,166.19 per year [1] |
Website | defensa.gob.es |
The Secretary of State for Defence (SEDEF) is the second-highest-ranking official in the Ministry of Defence of Spain. The SEDEF is a civilian which is appointed by the King with the advice of the Defence Minister. In spite of being the second authority of the Ministry, it is behind the Chief of the Defence Staff as far as military control is concerned.
The duties of the SEDEF are related to management and control of the economic resources, the armament policy and the defence infraestructures.
The current Secretary of State for Defence, since May 11, 2022, is Ms. Amparo Valcarce, former Undersecretary of Defence. [2]
The current functions are regulated by a Royal Decree of 2017, and are the following: [3]
The Secretary of State for Defense is the highest body of the Department responsible for the direction, promotion and management of weapons and material policies, and for the research, development and industrial, economic, infrastructure, environmental and systems, technologies and security of information innovation in the field of Defence.
Apart from these, SEDEF can carry out all those functions delegated to it by the Minister of Defense.
From the Secretary of State for Defence depends:
The following agencies also depends from the SEDEF:
Before this office was created, all its duties were carried out by the Undersecretary of Defence.
No. | Image | Name | Term of office | Ministers of Defence serving under: | Prime Minister appointed by: | ||
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Began | Ended | Days of service | |||||
1º | Eduardo Serra Rexach | 9 February 1984 | 18 July 1987 | 1255 | Narcís Serra i Serra | Felipe González | |
2º | Rafael de la Cruz Corcoll | 23 April 1988 | 12 October 1991 | 1267 | Narcís Serra i Serra Julián García Vargas | ||
3º | José Miguel Hernández Vázquez | 12 October 1991 | 3 October 1992 | 357 | Julián García Vargas | ||
4º | Antonio Flos Bassols | 10 October 1992 | 29 April 1995 | 931 | Julián García Vargas | ||
5º | Juan Ramón García Secades | 8 july 1995 | 11 May 1996 | 308 | Julián García Vargas Gustavo Suárez Pertierra | ||
6º | Pedro Morenés | 25 May 1996 | 6 May 2000 | 1442 | Eduardo Serra Rexach | José María Aznar | |
7º | Fernando Díez Moreno | 6 May 2000 | 20 April 2004 | 1445 | Federico Trillo | ||
8º | Francisco Pardo Piqueras | 20 April 2004 | 21 April 2007 | 1096 | José Bono José Antonio Alonso | José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero | |
9º | Soledad López Fernández | 21 April 2007 | 15 April 2008 | 360 | José Antonio Alonso | ||
10º | Constantino Méndez Martínez | 15 April 2008 | 31 December 2011 | 1355 | Carme Chacón Piqueras Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba | ||
11º | Pedro Argüelles Salaverría | 6 January 2012 | 19 November 2016 | 1779 | Pedro Morenés | Mariano Rajoy | |
12º | Agustín Conde Bajén | 19 November 2016 | 9 June 2018 | 567 | María Dolores de Cospedal | ||
13º | Ángel Olivares Ramírez [4] | 9 June 2018 | 24 June 2020 | 746 | Margarita Robles | Pedro Sánchez | |
14º | Esperanza Casteleiro [5] | 1 July 2020 | 11 May 2022 | 679 | |||
15º | Amparo Valcarce | 11 May 2022 | Incumbent | 625 |
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