Ministries of the Argentine Republic

The ministries of Argentina, which form the cabinet, currently consist of eight ministries under a ministerial chief of staff. ^[1] The ministers are appointed by and serve at the pleasure of the president. ^[1] The current organization derives from the constitutional revision of 1994. ^[1]

History

Prior to independence, the administration of the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata was organized under the Royal Ordinance of Administrators (Spanish: Real Ordenanza de Intendentes) issued on 28 January 1782, ^[2] under which there were eight intendencias, ^[a] each with a governor reporting to the viceroy. The governor had the police, finance, and the military under his direct control, and his lieutenant administered the courts. ^[2] At first the revolutionaries retained the same system, only gradually dispersing the executive authority over a larger body of men. ^[2] The first true cabinet posts in Argentina emerged in the early to mid-19th century first under the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata and later under the Argentine Confederation and the State of Buenos Aires. For example, the Department of Governance and War (Departamento de Gobierno y Guerra) was created on 28 May 1810 by the First Junta with Mariano Moreno as secretary, ^[4] and although the First Junta sent out diplomates as early as 1810, it was not until 27 February 1813 that the Department of Foreign Business (Departamento de Negocios Extranjeros) was created under the supervision of the Secretary of State. ^[5]

Argentine Confederation (1831–1852) ^[6]

• Ministry of War and the Navy
• Ministry of Finance
• Ministry of Interior
• Ministry of Foreign Affairs
• Ministry of Justice, Religion, and Public Education

State of Buenos Aires (1852–1861) ^[6]

• Ministry of Governance
• Ministry of War
• Ministry of Finance
• Ministry of Foreign Affairs
• Prosecutor's Office

Argentina (before 2023)

Logo	Ministry	Date formed	Fate	Now part of
	Ministry of Foreign Affairs, International Trade and Worship		No changes
	Ministry of Defense		No changes
	Ministry of Justice		No changes
	Ministry of Economy		No changes
	Ministry of Security		No changes
	Ministry of Health		No changes
	Ministry of the Interior		No changes
	Ministry of Culture	1973	Transformed into a secretariat	Ministry of Human Capital
	Ministry of Labour, Employment and Social Security	1943	Transformed into a secretariat	Ministry of Human Capital
	Ministry of Education	1949	Transformed into a secretariat	Ministry of Human Capital
	Ministry of Territorial Development and Habitat	2019	Transformed into a secretariat	Ministry of Economy
	Ministry of Transport	1949	Transformed into a secretariat	Ministry of Economy
	Ministry of Public Works	1898	Transformed into a secretariat	Ministry of Economy
	Ministry of Tourism and Sports	2001	Transformed into a secretariat	Secretariat of Tourism, Environment and Sports
	Ministry of Women, Genders and Diversity	2019	Transformed into a provisional undersecretary until dissolving in June 2024
	Ministry of the Environment and Sustainable Development	2015	Fully dissolved
	Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation	2007	Fully dissolved
	Ministry of Social Development	1955	Fully dissolved

Current ministries

As of October 2024 ^{[update] [7]}

Portfolio	Logo	Incumbent
		Portrait	Name	Since	Party		Coalition
Chief of the Cabinet of Ministers			Guillermo Francos	27 May 2024		Freedom Advances
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, International Trade and Worship			Gerardo Werthein	30 October 2024		Freedom Advances
Ministry of Defense			Luis Petri	10 December 2023		Radical Civic Union		Together for Change
Ministry of Economy			Luis Caputo	10 December 2023		Freedom Advances
Ministry of Justice			Mariano Cúneo Libarona	10 December 2023	Independent
Ministry of National Security			Patricia Bullrich	10 December 2023		Freedom Advances
Ministry of Health			Mario Lugones	26 September 2024	Independent
Ministry of Human Capital			Sandra Pettovello	10 December 2023		Union of the Democratic Centre		Freedom Advances
Ministry of Deregulation and State Transformation			Federico Sturzenegger	5 July 2024		Freedom Advances

Presidential secretariats with ministerial rank

The 1983 Law on Ministries passed by then-president Raúl Alfonsín set the precedent for secretariats of state with ministerial rank. ^[8] These secretaries respond directly to the presidency. As of the latest version of the Law on Ministries, these are the existing secretariats of the presidency counting with ministerial rank in the Argentine government. ^[9]

Portfolio	Incumbent
	Portrait	Name	Since	Party		Coalition
General Secretariat		Karina Milei	10 December 2023		Freedom Advances
Legal and Technical Secretariat		Javier Herrera Bravo	10 December 2023		Republican Proposal		Together for Change
Communications and Press Secretariat		Manuel Adorni	18 September 2024		Freedom Advances
Culture Secretariat		Leonardo Cifelli	27 December 2023		Freedom Advances
Secretariat of Intelligence of the State		Sergio Neiffert	16 July 2024	Independent

Notes

1. The intendencias were Buenos Aires, San Miguel de Tucumán, Cuyo, Paraguay, Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Potosí, La Paz, and Chuquisaca. ^[3]

References

1. "Jefatura de Gabinete de Ministros". Jefatura de Gabinete de Ministros. Archived from the original on 10 April 2015.
2. Zabala, Juan Pablo (2012). Fondos documentales del Departamento Documentos Escritos, División Nacional: Programa de Descripción Normalizada: secciones gobierno, Sala X y contaduría, Sala III, tribunales y protocolos de escribanos: volumen 2 (PDF) (in Spanish). Departamento Documentos Escritos, División Nacional. Buenos Aires: Archivo General de la Nación, Ministerio del Interior. p. 33. Archived (PDF) from the original on 4 March 2016.
3. Kermenic, Jan M. (1993). Pueblos, lenguas e instituciones de América meridional, Tomo I: AA–MM (in Spanish). Lima, Peru: [s.n.] p. 149. OCLC   30746236.
4. Zabala 2012 , p. 218
5. Zabala 2012 , p. 166
6. Zabala 2012 , p. 26
7. "BOLETIN OFICIAL REPUBLICA ARGENTINA - LEY DE MINISTERIOS - Decreto 8/2023". www.boletinoficial.gob.ar. Retrieved 17 January 2025.
8. "LEY DE MINISTERIOS Decreto 438/92". infoleg.gob.ar (in Spanish). 12 March 1992. Retrieved 23 November 2020.
9. Soltys, Michael (6 June 2020). "Non-ministerial positions – yet still key additions". Buenos Aires Times. Retrieved 8 December 2020.