The Ministry of Social Development (Mides), created on November 3, 2021, through subsection 15, of article 247 of Law No. 19,996, the National Directorate of Territorial Management, which receives the nomenclature of Executing Unit 010.
The position of the director of that office is of “particular trust” and must receive a payment equivalent to that of any director of other executing units, as established in article 16 of Law No. 18,996 of November 7, 2012.
In the same legislation, the position of particular trust “National Director of Territorial Management, of the Executing Unit 001, General Directorate of the Secretariat”, which had been created in March 2005 originally created with the name of “Director of Territorial Coordination” was abolished. and changed in Law No. 19,149 of 2013.
Position of trust and new salary
According publish the portal Eastern Chroniclesthe lawyer Alejandro Sciarra, son-in-law of the Minister of the Interior and former Minister of Transport, Luis Alberto Heber, was assigned to the position, who according to the media, would have said that he had nothing to do with the appointment.
Sciarra was already working at Mides, but had a lower-ranking position. Now, when promoted to director of the executing unit and because it is a position of particular trust, his salary will be equivalent to 60% of what a senator of the Republic earns; the latter is today around $264,893 (base), the aforementioned percentage being almost $159,000.
The resolution was signed by the President of the Republic, Luis Lacalle Pou, on February 4.
