Legal and Technical Secretariat of the Presidency

The Legal and Technical Secretariat of the Presidency of the Argentine Nation (Spanish: Secretaría Legal y Técnica de la Presidencia de la Nación Argentina; abbrevriated SLyT) is a secretariat of state of the Argentine National Executive counting with ministerial level, tasked with assisting the President of Argentina, the Chief of the Cabinet of Ministers and all other dependencies of the President's Office that may not count with their own legal departments on the drafting of decrees, legislative bills, administrative decisions and legal messages.^[2]

Legal and Technical Secretariat
of the Presidency

Secretaría Legal y Técnica de la Presidencia
Casa Rosada, government house of Argentina
Secretariat overview
Formed	1983; 42 years ago (1983)
Type	Secretariat of State
Jurisdiction	Argentina
Headquarters	Casa Rosada, Buenos Aires
Annual budget	$ 609,376,237 (2021)[1]
Secretariat executive	Javier Herrera Bravo, Legal and Technical Secretary
Parent department	Presidency of the Nation
Website	argentina.gob.ar/legalytecnica

The Legal and Technical Secretariat also oversees the Official Bulletin of the Argentine Republic, the national government's gazette.^[3] Since 10 December 2023, the Legal and Technical Secretary of the Presidency has been Javier Herrera Bravo, who serves under President Javier Milei.^[4]

It is one of (currently) three secretariats in the Argentine government counting with ministerial level, the other being the General Secretariat and the Secretariat of Communications and Press.^[5]

Attributions and organization

The 1983 Law on Ministries (Spanish: Ley de Ministerios), decreed by Raúl Alfonsín, established eight secretariats reporting directly to the Office of the President tasked to delegate some of the President's direct responsibilities whilst aiding the head of state in the elaboration of public policies, among other responsibilities. These included the General Secretariat of the Presidency, the Planning Secretariat, the Intelligence Secretariat (SIDE, later disestablished and reformed into the AFI), the Media Secretariat, the Public Affairs Secretariat, the Science and Technology Secretariat, the Secretariat of Comprehensive Policies on Drugs (SEDRONAR) and the Habitat Secretariat.^[6] The Legal and Technical Undersecretariat operated under the scope of the General Secretariat until it was given its current status in February 1986.^[7]

Headquarters

The Legal and Technical Secretariat is entirely headquartered in the Casa Rosada, the official working residence of the President of Argentina.^[2]

List of secretaries

No.	Secretary	Party		Term	President
1	Jorge Luis Fernández Pastor		Independent	18 February 1986[8] – 5 May 1988[9]		Raúl Alfonsín
2	Horacio Jorge Costa		Independent	5 May 1988[9] – 29 June 1989[10]
3	Raúl Granillo Ocampo		Justicialist Party	8 July 1989[11] – 25 February 1991[12]		Carlos Menem
4	Jorge Luis Maiorano		Justicialist Party	25 February 1991[12] – 11 September 1992[13]
5	Carlos Corach		Justicialist Party	11 September 1992[13] – 5 January 1995[14]
6	Félix Borgonovo		Independent	5 January 1995[14] – 27 January 1998[15]
7	Ginés Ruiz		Independent	27 January 1998[16] – 10 December 1999
8	Héctor Rodríguez		Independent	13 December 1999[17] – 15 June 2000[18]		Fernando de la Rúa
9	Virgilio Loiácono		Independent	5 October 2000[19] – 23 December 2001[20]
10	Guillermo L'Huillier		Justicialist Party	23 December 2001[20][21] – 1 January 2002[22]		Adolfo Rodríguez Saá
11	Antonio Arcuri		Justicialist Party	2 January 2002[23] – 25 May 2003		Eduardo Duhalde
12	Carlos Zannini		Justicialist Party	25 May 2003 – 10 December 2007		Néstor Kirchner
				10 December 2007 – 10 December 2015		Cristina Fernández de Kirchner
13	Pablo Clusellas		Republican Proposal	10 December 2015 – 10 December 2019		Mauricio Macri
14	Vilma Ibarra		Independent	10 December 2019 – 10 December 2023		Alberto Fernández
15	Javier Herrera Bravo		Independent	10 December 2023 – present		Javier Milei