Senate: Legislative proposal to reduce the number of secretaries of state in ministries tacitly adopted
Tuesday, October 17, 2023
On Monday, the Senate tacitly adopted a legislative proposal by non-attached MPs to amend the Administrative Code by limiting the number of secretaries of state and undersecretaries of state in a ministry to four "for reasons of budgetary efficiency".According to the explanatory memorandum, "this measure would lead to a maximum of 70 Secretaries of State, on the assumption that ministries with fewer than four Secretaries of State ...