The Ministry of Public Works is facing one of the most difficult tasks across the entire new Spanish government: reworking the national deficit, which will require harnessing lags in regional government deficits and facing an ugly Social Security situation given that Spain has five million unemployed workers and deeply-rooted unemployment problems.
There is a growing preoccupation around correcting these imbalances, mostly tied to the CCAA. Painful adjustments will extend beyond mere cutbacks. Serious reforms are also on the agenda, a front that Montoro wants to be closely connected to.
Returning to growth with spending cuts will require reorganizing competencies, rethinking the administrations, eliminated duplicate jobs and questioning other segments of government. Achieving balance and discipline at the core of government thought processes is necessary, because cutting excess spending as if it were some malignant tumor will not be good enough.
