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

## 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. The Legal and Technical Undersecretariat operated under the scope of the General Secretariat until it was given its current status in February 1986.

## Headquarters

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

## List of secretaries

| No. | Secretary | Party | Term | President |
| 1 | Jorge Luis Fernández Pastor | Independent | 18 February 1986 – 5 May 1988 | Raúl Alfonsín |
| 2 | Horacio Jorge Costa | Independent | 5 May 1988 – 29 June 1989 | Raúl Alfonsín |
| 3 | Raúl Granillo Ocampo | Justicialist Party | 8 July 1989 – 25 February 1991 | Carlos Menem |
| 4 | Jorge Luis Maiorano | Justicialist Party | 25 February 1991 – 11 September 1992 | Carlos Menem |
| 5 | Carlos Corach | Justicialist Party | 11 September 1992 – 5 January 1995 | Carlos Menem |
| 6 | Félix Borgonovo | Independent | 5 January 1995 – 27 January 1998 | Carlos Menem |
| 7 | Ginés Ruiz | Independent | 27 January 1998 – 10 December 1999 | Carlos Menem |
| 8 | Héctor Rodríguez | Independent | 13 December 1999 – 15 June 2000 | Fernando de la Rúa |
| 9 | Virgilio Loiácono | Independent | 5 October 2000 – 23 December 2001 | Fernando de la Rúa |
| 10 | Guillermo L'Huillier | Justicialist Party | 23 December 2001 – 1 January 2002 | Adolfo Rodríguez Saá |
| 11 | Antonio Arcuri | Justicialist Party | 2 January 2002 – 25 May 2003 | Eduardo Duhalde |
| 12 | Carlos Zannini | Justicialist Party | 25 May 2003 – 10 December 2007 | Néstor Kirchner |
| 12 | Carlos Zannini | Justicialist Party | 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 |