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.

History

The position and ministry were 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.

Titulars

Picture	Name	Entered Office	Exited Office	Notes	Appointed by
	Hernán Béjares González	1976	1977		Augusto Pinochet
	René Vidal Basauri	1977	1979
	Julio Fernández Atienza	1979	1980
	Sergio Badiola Broberg	1980	1980
	René Vidal Basauri	1980	1980
	Julio Bravo Valdés	1980	1982
	Hernán Felipe Errázuriz Correa	1982	1983
	Ramón Suárez González	1983	1984
	Alfonso Márquez de la Plata Yrarrázaval	1984	1984
	Francisco Javier Cuadra Lizana	1984	1987
	Orlando Poblete	1987	1988
	Cristián Labbé Galilea	1988	March 11, 1990
	Enrique Correa Ríos	March 11, 1990	March 11, 1994		Patricio Aylwin
	Víctor Manuel Rebolledo	March 11, 1994	September, 1994		Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle
	José Joaquín Brunner Ried	September, 1994	August, 1998
	Jorge Arrate MacNiven	August, 1998	June, 1999
	Carlos Mladinic	June, 1999	March 11, 2000
	Claudio Huepe García	March 11, 2000	January, 2002		Ricardo Lagos
	Heraldo Muñoz Valenzuela	January, 2002	March, 2003
	Francisco Vidal Salinas	March, 2003	May, 2005
	Osvaldo Puccio Huidobro	May, 2005	March 11, 2006
	Ricardo Lagos Weber	March 11, 2006	December 6, 2007		Michelle Bachelet
	Francisco Vidal Salinas	December 6, 2007	March 12, 2009
	Carolina Tohá Morales	March 12, 2009	March 11, 2010

External links

• Official site (Spanish)

Sources

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