Seville safeguards the exclusive dedication of five socialist councilors

The Mayor’s Office of Seville has resolved to establish the dedication regime for six councilors of the Socialist Group: five with exclusive dedication and one with partial dedication at 75 percent, with retroactive effect from October 6, 2026. The decision is adopted through Decree number 735, of November 6, 2026, and is published in the Official Gazette of the Province of Seville (BOP) number 218, of November 11, 2026, on page 168, with official reference CVE BOP-SE-2026-218019.

Five exclusive and one partial at 75 percent

The decree, processed by the Area of Citizen Security and Human Resources of the Seville City Council, through the Human Resources Economic Management and Social Security Service, establishes in its second point the exclusive dedication regime for the following members of the Corporation:

• Mr. Antonio Muñoz Martínez, Group spokesperson.
• Ms. María Sonia Gaya Sánchez.
• Mr. Francisco Javier Páez Vélez-Bracho.
• Ms. Myriam Díaz Rodríguez.
• Mr. Juan Tomás de Aragón Jiménez.

The third point, for its part, establishes partial dedication for a single councilor:

• Ms. María Encarnación Aguilar Silva, with a partial dedication regime of 75 percent.

Both regimes apply with effect from October 6, 2026, the same date as the communication sent by the spokesperson of the Socialist Group.

The origin: a letter from the socialist spokesperson

The decree stems from the communication from the spokesperson of the Socialist Group dated October 6, 2026, in which the modification of the dedication regime of the group’s councilors is communicated. The Human Resources Economic Management and Social Security Service and the Municipal Comptroller’s Office issued reports on that letter, as recorded in the explanatory part of the resolution.

The first point of the decree is limited to “taking note” of that communication, so the modification is not imposed ex officio by the Mayor’s Office, but is formalized at the request of the municipal group itself, and the Mayor’s Office provides legal and economic coverage through the resolution.

Regulatory framework and pending procedures

The resolution is based on Article 75 of Law 7/1985, of April 2, Regulating the Bases of the Local Regime, which allows for the receipt of remuneration for the exercise of the office when performed with exclusive dedication, and takes as a reference the plenary agreement of June 30, 2023, in which the remuneration and dedication regime of the members of the Corporation was established.

The decree also incorporates two obligations of control and publicity:

• To report to the Plenary in the first session to be held.
• To publish the resolution in the Official Gazette of the Province and on the Corporation’s notice board.

The resolution appears electronically signed on November 9, 2026, by the head of the Human Resources Economic Management Department, by delegation of the head of Service, and is addressed to the president of the Provincial Council of Seville for the purposes of insertion in the bulletin.

Impact on municipal coffers and the group

The change has two immediate consequences. The first is economic: exclusive dedication implies full remuneration for the exercise of the office and registration in the General Social Security Regime, with the Corporation assuming the employer’s contribution, while partial dedication at 75 percent proportionally reduces that remuneration. The second is political: with five released councilors and a sixth partial, the Socialist Group consolidates a reinforced dedication structure in the City Council, with the group’s spokesperson among the beneficiaries of exclusivity.

The effects are retroactive to October 6, so that the publication of November 11 regularizes a situation already applied for more than a month. Any reader interested in the exact cost of these dedications must refer to the plenary agreement of June 30, 2023, which remains the reference for the amounts, and to the file that will be submitted to the next Plenary.

Source: Official Gazette of the Province of Seville, no. 218, of November 11, 2026, Local Administration, page 168 (official reference: CVE BOP-SE-2026-218019).