The Pleno of Covaleda reduces the mayor's paid working day by 50%

The Plenary Session of the Covaleda City Council approved in the session of September 18, 2026, reducing the paid partial dedication of the mayor, José Llorente Alonso, to 50% and assigning 25% to the deputy mayor, M.ª Isabel Llorente García. The agreement, adopted unanimously by the eight attending councilors, is published in the Official Gazette of the Province of Soria number 128, dated November 9, 2026, pages 4018 and 4019, with the reference BOPSO-128-09112026 and document number 2127.

To establish the remuneration, the City Council invokes Article 75 ter of Law 7/1985, of April 2, regulating the Bases of the Local Regime, which allows for the assignment of paid service provision under a part-time dedication regime to one of the members of the corporation, charged to the budget of the local entity. The basis of the file is the Constitutive Plenary of the Covaleda City Council, held on June 26, 2023, which in point 8 established the mayoral office, the partial dedication, and the allocation of remuneration. During the processing, Articles 75 and 75 bis of the same law were also invoked, which recognize the right of members of local corporations to receive remuneration and compensation charged to the municipal budget.

From 75% to 50% working day

The report from the Information Commission on plenary affairs, dated September 14, 2026, initially proposed maintaining the remuneration at 75% of the working day “as in the previous legislature,” with the corresponding salary increase for civil servants over the last four years. For that percentage, the amount was set at 29,326.06 gross euros per year, with preferential dedication to the tasks inherent to the office.

In the same commission, the mayor reported that, for various personal and professional reasons, his partial dedication needed to be reduced to a 50% working day, a percentage that should likewise be applied to determine his remuneration. The Plenary fully ratified the report and agreed that José Llorente Alonso provide partial dedication at 50% of the amount legally recognized for exclusive dedication.

The published text does not detail the specific amount resulting from that 50%, but instead refers to the figure legally recognized for exclusive dedication.

Distribution of dedications and unanimous vote

The agreement distributes the paid dedications between two positions:

• José Llorente Alonso, mayor: partial dedication of 50% of the amount recognized for exclusive dedication, with preferential dedication to the tasks of the office.
• M.ª Isabel Llorente García, deputy mayor: allocation of 25% of the paid benefit for the exercise of that office.

The proposal was submitted to an ordinary vote by a show of hands and passed unanimously, with the votes in favor of the eight councilors present:

• José Llorente Alonso
• María Isabel Llorente García
• Carlos Llorente de Miguel
• José Herrero Soria
• Jesús Hernández San Quirico
• Nicomedes Rogelio de Miguel de Miguel
• Diego García García
• José Antonio de Miguel Camarero

Publication and appeals process

The agreement provides for its publication in the Official Gazette of the Province of Soria, on the Edicts Board, and on the Electronic Office of the Covaleda City Council. The document appears signed in Covaleda on October 21, 2026, by the mayor, José Llorente Alonso.

Against the resolution, which exhausts administrative remedies according to article 52 of Law 7/1985, the following may be filed:

• An optional appeal for reversal (recurso de reposición) before the body that issued the act, within one month from the day following the receipt of the notification, in accordance with articles 123 and 124 of Law 39/2015, of October 1.
• A contentious-administrative appeal before the Contentious-Administrative Section of the Soria Court of First Instance, within two months, in accordance with article 46 of Law 29/1998, of July 13.
• If the appeal for reversal is chosen, the contentious-administrative appeal may not be filed until the former is expressly resolved or dismissed by administrative silence.

The decision directly affects the personnel expenditure chapter of the municipal budget: it reduces the mayor’s remuneration relative to the 75% initially provided for in the same file and, at the same time, incorporates for the first time in this agreement an allocation of 25% for the deputy mayor.

Source: Official Gazette of the Province of Soria, no. 128, of November 9, 2026, II. Local Administration, pp. 4018-4019 (official reference: BOPSO-128-09112026 / doc. 2127).