Ministry of the Interior (Chile)
Government ministry in Chile
The Ministry of the Interior (Spanish: Ministerio del Interior) is the cabinet-level office responsible for home affairs in Chile. It is tasked with "maintaining public order, security and social peace" within the country. The ministry is also responsible for planning, directing, coordinating, executing, controlling, and informing the domestic policies formulated by the president of Chile. As the authority in charge of local government, the minister supervises all non-elected regional authorities.
In the absence of the president of Chile (due to travel, death, or other impediment), the minister of the interior assumes the role of 'vice president'. However, this is not a true vice-presidential position but rather a designated acting president role, as the post of Vice President of Chile has not existed since 1833.
Since March 2026, Claudio Alvarado has served as Minister of the Interior, Máximo Pavez as Undersecretary of the Interior, and Sebastián Figueroa as Undersecretary of Regional and Administrative Development.
History
During the first days of the independence movements, the senior "secretary" of the respective Junta functioned as the Secretary of Government. The office was officially established on 27 October 1812, when it was one of the two secretariats created by the Constitutional Norms approved on that date. It was initially named the Secretariat of the Interior.
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