Ministry General Secretariat of the Presidency (Chile)

The Ministry General Secretariat of the Presidency (Spanish: Ministerio Secretaría General de la Presidencia) is the cabinet-level administrative office (equivalent to the president's Chief of Staff) which serves in an advisory role to the President of Chile and her or his ministers in the governments' relations with the National Congress of Chile, the development of the legislative agenda, and keeping track of the bills and other legislative activity in Congress as they pertain to the government.[1]

Álvaro Elizalde, the Minister Secretary-General of the Presidency since 19 April 2023.
Logo of the Ministry General Secretariat of the Presidency

The ministry was created in 1990 during the government of Patricio Aylwin,[1] and the first appointee and longest-serving Minister so far was Edgardo Boeninger Kausel.

The Minister Secretary-General of the Presidency is Álvaro Elizalde, who was appointed by President Gabriel Boric on 19 April 2023.[2][3]

Titulars edit

PictureNameEntered OfficeExited OfficeNotesAppointed by
Edgardo Böeninger Kausel11 March 199011 March 1994Patricio Aylwin
Genaro Arriagada Herrera11 March 19941996Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle
Juan Villarzú Rohde19961998
John Biehl del Río199822 June 1999
José Miguel Insulza Salinas22 June 199911 March 2000
Álvaro García Hurtado11 March 20002002Ricardo Lagos
Mario Fernández Baeza20022003
Francisco Huenchumilla Jaramillo20032004
Eduardo Dockendorff Vallejos200411 March 2006
Paulina Veloso Valenzuela11 March 200627 March 2007Michelle Bachelet
José Antonio Viera-Gallo Quesney27 March 200711 March 2010
Cristián Patricio Larroulet Vignau11 March 201011 March 2014Sebastián Piñera
Ximena Cecilia Rincón González11 March 201411 May 2015Michelle Bachelet
Jorge Insunza Gregorio de Las Heras11 May 20157 June 2015
Patricia Silva Meléndez7 June 201527 June 2015
Nicolás Eyzaguirre27 June 201531 August 2017
Gabriel de la Fuente Acuña31 August 201711 March 2018
Gonzalo Blumel Mac Iver11 March 201828 October 2019Sebastián Piñera
Felipe Andrés Ward Edwards28 October 20194 June 2020
Claudio Alvarado4 June 202028 July 2020
Cristián Monckeberg28 July 20206 January 2021
Juan José Ossa6 January 202111 March 2022
Kenneth Giorgio Jackson Drago11 March 20226 September 2022Gabriel Boric
Ana Lya Uriarte6 September 202219 April 2023
Álvaro Elizalde19 April 2023Incumbent

References edit

  1. ^ a b "Ministry General Secretariat of the Presidency (Law)" (in Spanish). Ministerio Secretaría General de la Presidencia. Retrieved 21 March 2014.
  2. ^ "Gobierno de Chile: Ministerio Secretaría General de la Presidencia". www.gob.cl. 2022. Retrieved 26 September 2022.
  3. ^ Brown, Martín; Caro, Isabel (19 April 2023). "Del Senado al gabinete: Boric apuesta por Álvaro Elizalde para reemplazar a ministra Uriarte en la Segpres" [From Senate to cabinet: Boric bets on Álvaro Elizalde to replace minister Uriarte at Segpres]. La Tercera (in Spanish). Grupo Copesa. Retrieved 19 April 2023.

Sources edit

  • Valencia Avaria, Luis (1986). Anales de la República: textos constitucionales de Chile y registro de los ciudadanos que han integrado los poderes ejecutivo y legislativo desde 1810 (in Spanish) (2ª edición ed.). Santiago de Chile: Editorial Andrés Bello. (in Spanish)

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