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]
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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
Picture | Name | Entered Office | Exited Office | Notes | Appointed by |
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Edgardo Böeninger Kausel | 11 March 1990 | 11 March 1994 | Patricio Aylwin | |
Genaro Arriagada Herrera | 11 March 1994 | 1996 | Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle | ||
Juan Villarzú Rohde | 1996 | 1998 | |||
John Biehl del Río | 1998 | 22 June 1999 | |||
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José Miguel Insulza Salinas | 22 June 1999 | 11 March 2000 | ||
Álvaro García Hurtado | 11 March 2000 | 2002 | Ricardo Lagos | ||
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Mario Fernández Baeza | 2002 | 2003 | ||
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Francisco Huenchumilla Jaramillo | 2003 | 2004 | ||
Eduardo Dockendorff Vallejos | 2004 | 11 March 2006 | |||
Paulina Veloso Valenzuela | 11 March 2006 | 27 March 2007 | Michelle Bachelet | ||
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José Antonio Viera-Gallo Quesney | 27 March 2007 | 11 March 2010 | ||
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Cristián Patricio Larroulet Vignau | 11 March 2010 | 11 March 2014 | Sebastián Piñera | |
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Ximena Cecilia Rincón González | 11 March 2014 | 11 May 2015 | Michelle Bachelet | |
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Jorge Insunza Gregorio de Las Heras | 11 May 2015 | 7 June 2015 | ||
Patricia Silva Meléndez | 7 June 2015 | 27 June 2015 | |||
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Nicolás Eyzaguirre | 27 June 2015 | 31 August 2017 | ||
Gabriel de la Fuente Acuña | 31 August 2017 | 11 March 2018 | |||
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Gonzalo Blumel Mac Iver | 11 March 2018 | 28 October 2019 | Sebastián Piñera | |
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Felipe Andrés Ward Edwards | 28 October 2019 | 4 June 2020 | ||
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Claudio Alvarado | 4 June 2020 | 28 July 2020 | ||
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Cristián Monckeberg | 28 July 2020 | 6 January 2021 | ||
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Juan José Ossa | 6 January 2021 | 11 March 2022 | ||
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Kenneth Giorgio Jackson Drago | 11 March 2022 | 6 September 2022 | Gabriel Boric | |
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Ana Lya Uriarte | 6 September 2022 | 19 April 2023 | ||
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Álvaro Elizalde | 19 April 2023 | Incumbent |
References
- "Ministry General Secretariat of the Presidency (Law)" (in Spanish). Ministerio Secretaría General de la Presidencia. Retrieved 21 March 2014.
- "Gobierno de Chile: Ministerio Secretaría General de la Presidencia". www.gob.cl. 2022. Retrieved 26 September 2022.
- 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
- 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)