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

Picture	Name	Entered Office	Exited Office	Notes	Appointed by
	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
	José Miguel Insulza Salinas	22 June 1999	11 March 2000
	Álvaro García Hurtado	11 March 2000	2002		Ricardo Lagos
	Mario Fernández Baeza	2002	2003
	Francisco Huenchumilla Jaramillo	2003	2004
	Eduardo Dockendorff Vallejos	2004	11 March 2006
	Paulina Veloso Valenzuela	11 March 2006	27 March 2007		Michelle Bachelet
	José Antonio Viera-Gallo Quesney	27 March 2007	11 March 2010
	Cristián Patricio Larroulet Vignau	11 March 2010	11 March 2014		Sebastián Piñera
	Ximena Cecilia Rincón González	11 March 2014	11 May 2015		Michelle Bachelet
	Jorge Insunza Gregorio de Las Heras	11 May 2015	7 June 2015
	Patricia Silva Meléndez	7 June 2015	27 June 2015
	Nicolás Eyzaguirre	27 June 2015	31 August 2017
	Gabriel de la Fuente Acuña	31 August 2017	11 March 2018
	Gonzalo Blumel Mac Iver	11 March 2018	28 October 2019		Sebastián Piñera
	Felipe Andrés Ward Edwards	28 October 2019	4 June 2020
	Claudio Alvarado	4 June 2020	28 July 2020
	Cristián Monckeberg	28 July 2020	6 January 2021
	Juan José Ossa	6 January 2021	11 March 2022
	Kenneth Giorgio Jackson Drago	11 March 2022	6 September 2022		Gabriel Boric
	Ana Lya Uriarte	6 September 2022	19 April 2023
	Álvaro Elizalde	19 April 2023	Incumbent

References

1. "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

• 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)

External links

• Ministry General Secretariat of the Presidency website