Ministry General Secretariat of the Presidency (Chile)

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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]

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 current Minister Secretary-General of the Presidency is José Antonio Viera-Gallo, who was appointed by President Michelle Bachelet mid-term and has served since March 27, 2007.

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Picture	Name	Entered Office	Exited Office	Notes	Appointed by
	Edgardo Böeninger Kausel	March 11, 1990	March 11, 1994		Patricio Aylwin
	Genaro Arriagada Herrera	March 11, 1994	1996		Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle
	Juan Villarzú Rohde	1996	1998
	John Biehl del Río	1998	June 22, 1999
	José Miguel Insulza Salinas	June 22, 1999	March 11, 2000
	Álvaro García Hurtado	March 11, 2000	2002		Ricardo Lagos
	Mario Fernández Baeza	2002	2003
	Francisco Huenchumilla Jaramillo	2003	2004
	Eduardo Dockendorff Vallejos	2004	March 11, 2006
	Paulina Veloso Valenzuela	March 11, 2006	March 27, 2007		Michelle Bachelet
	José Antonio Viera-Gallo Quesney	March 27, 2007	Incumbent		Michelle Bachelet