Until August it has 15,000 communications, almost 28,000 less than in 2021
MADRID, 30 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, has received a total of 218,934 communications from citizens since 2018, although the rate has been decreasing year after year. Until last August, 15,079 communications have been collected in Moncloa, 27,746 less than the previous year.
In response to a question from the PDeCAT deputy Genís Boadella, the Government has detailed the number of citizen communications received for the president, although it does not clarify the format of these contacts.
According to data collected by Europa Press, the president adds a total of 218,934 since he came to the Government. In the first six months of 2018 there were 21,666 and in the first full year the best figure was marked, 75,789 communications in 2019, but from then on the records went down. Thus, in 2020, 63,575 communications were recorded, in 2021 it dropped to 42,825 and until last August, when more than half a year has passed, there were only 15,079 communications.
In addition, the Executive reports the number of people who have been interested in and/or have visited the La Moncloa complex within the framework of the Open Moncloa program, which was resumed in June after a suspension during 2020 and 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Until August 2022, a total of 419 people have done so. In 2018, 1,142 did so; in 2019, 2,288; and in 2020 –until the outbreak of the pandemic–, 275. They add up to 4,124 people since the beginning of Sánchez’s term.
The program, which began in 2018, opens the doors of the complex in which the Council of Ministers meets, and in which, among others, the offices of the Presidency of the Government, the Secretary of State for Communication or the Department of National security. It is, as the Government emphasizes, a personal initiative of the president, Pedro Sánchez.
The guided route allows citizens to get to know the most emblematic spaces of a complex that, since 1977, also houses the official residence of the presidents of the Government in office. They take place when there are no public events scheduled on the complex’s official agenda, and they last approximately 90 minutes.
It is open to Spanish citizens or residents in Spain. In satisfaction surveys conducted after the tour, 98.5 percent of the participants rated the experience as “good” or “very good,” according to government data.
From this group of people who have addressed communications to the Government or who have visited Moncloa, the group of 50 citizens with whom President Pedro Sánchez decided to open the political course last September was selected.
As detailed by the Government in another response, the selection was made based on criteria of “territorial, social and gender equality representation”. Later it was learned that among those elected there were several positions and socialist militants.
