The Government approves 36,588 public employment positions for 2025, 10% fewer than last year.

During Tuesday's Council of Ministers press conference, the Minister for Digital Transformation and Civil Service, Óscar López, announced the approval of the public employment offer for 2025, with 36,588 new positions , 10% fewer than a year ago. Excluding the armed forces and state security forces, the figure stands at 26,889 positions for the General State Administration.

Of these, 70% are new positions , equivalent to 20,324 available positions for people who would enter the administration; and 30%, 6,565 positions, have been reserved for internal promotion, as López explained.

The Minister of Public Service asserted that they are "improving and perfecting the Administration's profiles," based on the technological and digital resources available. It is worth noting that, before presenting the public employment offer, the minister had boasted of the 88% score in digitalization that the European Commission had assigned to Spain, six points above the EU as a whole. Óscar López also stated that the direct citizen service has been the most strengthened, with 8,851 new positions . Among the beneficiaries of these new positions, López highlights the offices for renewing DNI (National Identity Document), Social Security, SEPE (Secretariat of Public Works), Immigration, the Land Registry, and the DGT (Directorate-General for the Development of the DGT), among others.

For its part, the Independent Civil Servants' Trade Union (CSIF) has reiterated its rejection of the offer because, it argues, the positions are "insufficient to cover the losses accumulated in the State Administration in recent years," specifically more than 42,000 employees over the last two decades. In this sense, the public employment offer approved today by the Government reverses the growth trend followed until now, with 3,558 fewer positions than last year , a 10% decrease for a workforce composed of 20% workers of retirement age, laments the largest civil servants' union in Spain.

In this regard, CSIF points to the lack of budgets from the Executive, as well as the spending restrictions already being implemented by Brussels through the freezing of EU funds, as the cause of this reversal in growth.