Ministry General Secretariat of Government (Chile)
The Ministry General Secretariat of Government (Spanish: Ministerio Secretaría General de Gobierno) (Segegob) is the cabinet-level administrative office charged with acting as the government's organ of communication. The principal function of the Minister Secretary General of Government and his or her staff is to serve as the spokesperson of the government. The current Minister Secretary General of Government is Camila Vallejo.
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History
The position of the General Secretariat of Government was created in 1932, and the Ministry General Secretariat of Government was created in 1976 after a decree (Decreto Ley N° 1.385) which awarded ministerial rank to the General Secretariat of Government. The Ministry General Secretariat of Government was reorganized by different laws in 1991 and 1992 during the administration of Patricio Aylwin.
General Secretaries / Ministers
Picture | Name | Entered Office | Exited office | Notes | Appointed by |
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Jaime Suárez Bastidas | 4 November 1970 | 8 August 1972 | Salvador Allende | |
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Hernán del Canto Riquelme | 8 August 1972 | 27 March 1973 | ||
Aníbal Palma Fourcade | 27 March 1973 | 9 August 1973 | |||
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Fernando Flores Labra | 9 August 1973 | 11 September 1973 | ||
Pedro Ewing Hodar | 12 September 1973 | 1974 | Augusto Pinochet | ||
Hernán Béjares González | 1974 22 March 1976 |
15 November 1977 | |||
René Vidal Basauri | 15 November 1977 | 27 January 1979 | |||
Julio Fernández Atienza | 27 January 1979 | 14 December 1979 | |||
Sergio Badiola Broberg | 14 December 1979 | 20 October 1980 | |||
René Vidal Basauri | 20 October 1980 | 29 December 1980 | |||
Julio Bravo Valdés | 29 December 1980 | 30 August 1982 | |||
Hernán Felipe Errázuriz Correa | 30 August 1982 | 14 February 1983 | |||
Ramón Suárez González | 14 February 1983 | 10 August 1983 | |||
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Alfonso Márquez de la Plata Yrarrázaval | 10 August 1983 | 6 November 1984 | ||
Francisco Javier Cuadra Lizana | 6 November 1984 | 11 July 1987 | |||
Orlando Poblete | 11 July 1987 | 21 October 1988 | |||
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Miguel Ángel Poduje | 21 October 1988 | 5 April 1989 | ||
Óscar Vargas Guzmán | 5 April 1989 | 17 August 1989 | |||
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Cristián Labbé Galilea | 17 August 1989 | 11 March 1990 | ||
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Enrique Correa Ríos | 11 March 1990 | 11 March 1994 | Patricio Aylwin | |
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Víctor Manuel Rebolledo | 11 March 1994 | 20 September 1994 | Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle | |
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José Joaquín Brunner Ried | 20 September 1994 | 1 August 1998 | ||
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Jorge Arrate MacNiven | 1 August 1998 | 22 June 1999 | ||
Carlos Mladinic | 22 June 1999 | 11 March 2000 | |||
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Claudio Huepe García | 11 March 2000 | 7 January 2002 | Ricardo Lagos | |
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Heraldo Muñoz Valenzuela | 7 January 2002 | 3 March 2003 | ||
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Francisco Vidal Salinas | 3 March 2003 | 24 May 2005 | ||
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Osvaldo Puccio Huidobro | 24 May 2005 | 11 March 2006 | ||
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Ricardo Lagos Weber | 11 March 2006 | 6 December 2007 | Michelle Bachelet | |
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Francisco Vidal Salinas | 6 December 2007 | 12 March 2009 | ||
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Carolina Tohá Morales | 12 March 2009 | 14 December 2009 | ||
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Pilar Armanet | 14 December 2009 | 11 March 2010 | ||
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Ena von Baer Jahn | 11 March 2010 | 18 July 2011 | Sebastián Piñera | |
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Andrés Chadwick Piñera | 18 July 2011 | 5 November 2012 | ||
Cecilia Pérez | 5 November 2012 | 11 March 2014 | |||
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Álvaro Elizalde | 11 March 2014 | 11 May 2015 | Michelle Bachelet | |
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Marcelo Díaz | 11 May 2015 | 19 November 2016 | ||
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Paula Narváez | 19 November 2016 | 11 March 2018 | ||
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Cecilia Pérez | 11 March 2018 | 28 October 2019 | Sebastián Piñera | |
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Karla Rubilar | 28 October 2019 | 28 July 2020 | ||
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Jaime Bellolio | 28 July 2020 | 11 March 2022 | ||
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Camila Vallejo | 11 March 2022 | Incumbent | Gabriel Boric | |
External links
- Official site (in Spanish)
Sources
- 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)