“Regulate conflicts of interest more effectively in the face of the revolving door phenomenon, precisely setting the conditions of incompatibility for the persons concerned and toughening the sanctions for non-compliance”.

This is how the first electoral program of the PSOE of Pedro Sánchez read in 2019. Over the years, territorial quotas, awards for personal loyalty and the rescue of senior positions in territories lost to the PP are the three keys on which Sánchez's policy to occupy large public companies has been based in the last four years.. The revolving doors haven't stopped. In this world there are hundreds of billions of euros at stake, in addition to the power provided by strategic sectors such as transport, communication, energy or defense. There are also very relevant ones such as Jesús Huerta's (former Minister of Finance in Andalusia) gambling in the State Lotteries, the communications in Hispasat, chaired by the former mayor of Barcelona, Jordi Hereu -the only one who does not publish his salary- or directly considered a prize, such as Paradores for Pedro Saura (former State Secretary of José Luis Ábalos in Development) or the Hipódromo de la Zarzuela. If it were necessary to personalize the finger that has appointed most of the senior positions in the last four years, it would be those of Pedro Sánchez himself, Salvador Illa, president of the PSC and María Jesús Montero, Minister of Finance. The three, each according to their criteria, have removed and placed high positions.

MAIL:

Juan Manuel Serrano, former chief of staff of Pedro Sánchez and with a salary of 208,513 euros, was the warning that the commitment of the revolving doors in 2019 was worthless. Chief of staff of the Federal Executive Commission of the PSOE, his loyalty to Pedro Sánchez earned him a high position in a public company. It was in July 2018, just a month and a half after the motion of censure that unseated the PP government. In these four years, Serrano has maintained a bitter struggle with the unions of the company with the most employees in the public sector, 49,000, who point to him for having neither experience nor ability to run the company, much less take charge of its transformation.. Serrano leaned on a strategy director, Avelino Castro, who further inflamed the social situation in the company. After his departure, he appointed Enrique Cervera, former spokesman for the Junta de Andalucía in the presidency of Manuel Chaves and from the EFE news agency, as his successor.. Serrano is, according to the UGT and CCOO unions, the cause of the company accumulating losses of 1,000 million since he assumed the presidency.

INDRA

In May 2021, the Indra board forced the replacement of its executive president, Fernando Abril Martorell, to cede the position to Marc Murtra, an industrial engineer, former CEO of Red.es, Joan Clos' chief of staff at the Ministry of Industry and the highest salary of those chosen by Sánchez, with 586,000 euros.. April Martorell had given a strong boost to the transformation of the technology and defense company. The coup was not definitive because Murtra assumed the presidency without executive powers. But it would be completed a year later in a new assault by SEPI in collaboration with the Amber activist fund -commanded by the also president of the Prisa group, Joseph Oughourlian- and the Basque defense group SAPA. The operation took away no less than five independent directors and left the market regulator, the CNMV and its president, Rodrigo Buenaventura, in a compromised situation for not intervening beyond censoring maneuvers that ignored the codes of good practice.

RENFE

In the Government of Pedro Sánchez, Renfe belongs to the orbit of the Socialist Party of Catalonia (PSC) led by Salvador Illa. Actually, the PSC is a quota that is extended to other companies of the Ministry of Transport directed by Raquel Sánchez and that has another exhibition in Aena, chaired by Maurici Lucena. But if the airport manager knew how to overcome the pandemic and not give a startle, it was not like that at Renfe. Before Raül Blanco, Renfe was assigned to Isaías Táboas, with a salary of 180,000 euros. To his then minister, José Luis Ábalos, Táboas's resume to lead a public railway operator with 13,000 workers on the verge of liberalization seemed the best: Murtra's predecessor as cabinet director of the Ministry of Industry with Joan Clos, Montilla's right-hand man in the Generalitat and Secretary of State for Transport until 2011 with José Blanco in Fomento when Blanco himself put an end to the era of pharaonic infrastructures with that one famous phrase “we have lived beyond our means”. Táboas resigned in February due to the scandal of the commission to the CAF company of trains for a value of 258 million euros that did not fit through the tunnels of the network. But he has remained a director of the company's subsidiaries. His replacement is Raül Blanco, also a senior position of the PSC, Secretary General of Industry and SMEs with Reyes Maroto until December 2022, when he was relieved after the failure of the automotive PERTE.

REDEIA

Beatriz Corredor, property registrar and former Minister of Housing in the Government of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero was part of the group that supported Pedro Sánchez in the formation of the new PSOE executive. But, although she appeared on the lists for deputy for Madrid, Sánchez called her to replace Jordi Sevilla at the head of Red Eléctrica in February 2020, just formed his Government. With a salary of 546,000 euros at the head of Redeia, which includes other companies such as Hispasat, chaired by the former mayor of Barcelona Jordi Heréu, Corredor has launched the transformation of the company to diversify its activity towards other sectors that are not energy. With 546,000 euros received in 2022, his salary is next to that of the president of Indra, Marc Murtra, the highest of the senior positions appointed by Sánchez.

RACECOURSE

The Hipódromo de la Zarzuela, in Madrid, is a company belonging to SEPI and State Lotteries and Betting whose purpose is to reactivate the horse racing sector and promote an economic activity that highly creates employment and performs important social work, as explained by the company itself in its list of purposes. Maritcha was called a month later to occupy the presidency of the Hippodrome despite the fact that the previous president had barely been in office for a year, which is paid with 113,000 euros.

ENAGAS

The energy operator is a listed company that has BlacRock and Amancio Ortega as its main shareholders.. together with SEPI. It is the reason that his council is highly politicized, with the presence of former Zapatero ministers, José Blanco and José Montilla, both with a salary of 160,000 euros and a record of independents, such as the former PP minister, Ana de Palacio, or Cristóbal Gallego, adviser to Podemos.. Arturo Gonzalo Aizpiri is the CEO. Closely linked to the PSOE, his position will be more than doubtful in the event of a change of government