Ceuta creates a general directorate for support to the Presidency and appoints Andrés Tosal Peláez

The Governing Council of the Autonomous City of Ceuta agreed on November 3, 2026, to create the General Directorate of Coordination and Support to the Presidency and to appoint Andrés Tosal Peláez as its head. Agreement number 750 is published in the Official Gazette of the City of Ceuta (BOCCE) number 6,668, corresponding to Tuesday, November 10, 2026, within the Authorities and Personnel section, on page 3819. The text appears signed by the president of the City, Juan Jesús Vivas Lara, dated November 5, 2026.

The decision was adopted in an ordinary session of the Governing Council and consists of four sections: the creation of the body, the determination of its functions, the appointment of the general director, and the order of publication in the Official Gazette of the City. The new general directorate is organically dependent on the Presidency of the City, thereby providing its own administrative structure to the core of the president’s Cabinet, which until now lacked this level of general direction in the published text.

Direct dependence on the Chief of Staff

The agreement establishes that the head of the new general directorate will exercise its functions “under the direction and supervision of the Chief of Staff to the President,” without prejudice to the superior authority of the president of the City. The creation is made without diminishing the powers that Article 26 of the Government Regulations and Administration Services recognizes for other bodies.

The assigned functions are nine and cover the entire activity cycle of the Presidency:

• Support, assistance, and advisory services to the president of the City.
• Programming, planning, and preparation of meetings, contacts, interviews, and public appearances.
• Preparation of reports, studies, proposals, and informative materials regarding the activity of the Presidency.
• Collection, analysis, verification, and organization of data, background, and information of interest to the Presidency.
• Support for the coordination of institutional relations and the organization of institutional events.
• Support in institutional communication and the dissemination of the activities and initiatives of the Presidency.
• Monitoring, when expressly entrusted, of matters, agreements, conventions, resolutions, and commitments.
• Support, coordination, supervision, and monitoring of the administrative, economic, and budgetary actions of the Presidency.
• Any other tasks assigned by the president, directly or through the chief of his Cabinet.

A freely appointed position without career requirements

The agreement specifies that, “in view of the assigned functions, the condition of being a career civil servant is not required for its performance,” in accordance with Article 25 of the Government Regulations and Administration Services. It is, therefore, a freely appointed position of a political or trust profile, and not a position reserved for career civil service personnel.

The appointment falls to Andrés Tosal Peláez, designated with the protocolary title of “Mr.” in the official text. The agreement does not detail his previous trajectory or the remuneration of the position in the Bulletin, and limits itself to ordering the publication of the agreement in the Official Bulletin of the City, a procedure fulfilled by this insertion.

Other movements in the same bulletin

Issue 6,668 of the BOCCE gathers other personnel and organizational decisions from the same environment of the Presidency:

• Agreement 754, by which the president designates the first vice president and counselor of Environment, Urban Services, and Housing, Alejandro Ramírez Hurtado, as Acting President of the City of Ceuta, from November 5 at 6:45 p.m. until his return, due to absence from the City.
• The decree of the counselor of Presidency and Governance, Alberto Ramón Gaitán Rodríguez, by which Samra Hamadi Mohamed is appointed as an interim civil servant in the position of Nursing Assistant, dated November 3, 2026.
• Agreement 748, which sets the calendar of public holidays for the Autonomous City of Ceuta for 2027, and the decree of the counselor of Education, Culture, and Youth, Pilar Orozco Valverde, which approves the rules for the 2027 Carnival poster competition.

The creation of this general directorate reinforces the weight of the president’s Cabinet within the administrative structure of the City and concentrates the coordination of events, institutional communication, documentation, and budgetary monitoring of the Presidency into a single body. For citizens, it represents a new political appointment management level at the top of the Ceuta local Administration, whose activity will be funded by the Presidency’s structure.

Source: Official Bulletin of the City of Ceuta, no. 6,668, November 10, 2026, Authorities and Personnel, page 3819 (official reference: agreement no. 750 of the Governing Council).