| Chief of the Cabinet of Ministers of Argentina | |
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| Jefe de Gabinete de Ministros de la Nación Argentina | |
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| Style | Mr. Chief of the Cabinet |
| Reports to | President of Argentina andArgentine National Congress |
| Seat | Edificio Somisa,Buenos Aires[1] |
| Appointer | President of Argentina |
| Term length | At the president's pleasure |
| Constituting instrument | Argentine Constitution of 1853 (1994 amendment) |
| Inaugural holder | Eduardo Bauzá |
| Formation | 8 July 1995; 30 years ago (1995-07-08) |
| Salary | $ 312,657.00 annually (2020)[2] |
| Website | argentina.gob.ar/jefatura |
Thechief of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Argentine Nation (Spanish:Jefe de Gabinete de Ministros de la Nación Argentina;JGM), more commonly known simply as theCabinet chief (Spanish:Jefe de Gabinete) is aministerial office within thegovernment ofArgentina tasked with overseeing the government's general administration and acting as a link between the national executive and theArgentine National Congress.[3] The position was created by the1994 amendment to theArgentine Constitution.
The Cabinet chief is not aprime minister, as in Argentina'spresidential democracy the role ofhead of government is still bestowed upon thepresident.[4] However, the Cabinet chief is still constitutionally obligated to give account of the general course of the government's policies before Congress, and may be removed through avote of no confidence (moción de censura) with anabsolute majority in both chambers of Congress.[5]
The current Cabinet chief isManuel Adorni, who was appointed on 31 October 2025 by PresidentJavier Milei.[6]
The office of the chief of the Cabinet of Ministers was established by the1994 amendment to theArgentine Constitution.[3] It was part of the agreements brokered by the two largest parties in Argentina at the time, theJusticialist Party (PJ) and theRadical Civic Union (UCR), in what is now known as thePact of Olivos; the UCR, then led by former presidentRaúl Alfonsin, sought to reduce the significant political powers of the presidency and shift towards aparliamentary system.[4][7] In the end, however, the overarching nature of Argentina's political system following the reform remained decidedly presidential, as the chief of the Cabinet of Ministers acts more as an extension of the president to whom the head of state may delegate a certain number of responsibilities, while also being constitutionally obligated to report to theNational Congress.[4][8]
The first Cabinet chief wasEduardo Bauzá, who was appointed on 8 July 1995 by PresidentCarlos Saúl Menem.[9]
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The attributes of the chief of the Cabinet of Ministers are established by the articles 100 and 101 of theConstitution of Argentina. Most of the Cabinet chief's duties are related to the organization of the cabinet's work agenda and the general course of the government's performance, as well as acting as an intermediary between theexecutive power and theArgentine National Congress.
Specifically, articles 100 and 101 state:
Second Part: Authorities of the Nation
Chapter IV
The Chief of the Ministerial Cabinet and other Ministers of the Executive Power
Section 100.- The Chief of the Ministerial Cabinet and the other secretary ministers, whose number and powers shall be determined by a special law, shall be in charge of the business of the Nation and shall countersign and legalize the acts of the President with their signatures, without which said acts are void.
The Chief of the Ministerial Cabinet, politically liable before the National Congress, is empowered:
1.- To exercise the general administration of the country.
2.- To perform the acts and issue the rules necessary to exercise the powers granted by this section as well as those delegated by the President of the Nation, being countersigned by the pertinent secretary minister to which the act or rule refers.
3.- To appoint the employees of the Administration, except for those pertaining to the President.
4.- To exercise the functions and powers delegated to him by the President of the Nation and, with the consent of the Cabinet, to decide about matters that the Executive Power may indicate to him or, on his own account, about those he deems it necessary due to their importance, within the scope of his jurisdiction.
5.- To coordinate, prepare and convoke the meetings of the ministerial cabinet, presiding at them in the absence of the President.
6.- To submit to Congress the bills on Ministries and National Budget, with the prior consent of the Cabinet and the approval of the Executive Power.
7.- To have the revenues of the Nation collected and to enforce the National Budget Act.
8.- To countersign regulatory decrees of the laws, decrees to extend the ordinary legislative session of Congress or to convoke to an extraordinary one, and the messages of the President supporting legislative initiatives.
9.- To attend the meetings of Congress and take part in its debates, but not to vote.
10.- Once the ordinary legislative session of Congress has begun, to submit together with the other ministers a detailed report on the state of the Nation regarding the business of the respective departments.
11.- To give such oral and written reports and explanations that either of the Houses may request from the Executive Power.
12.- To countersign decrees about powers delegated by Congress, which shall be under the control of the Joint Standing Committee.
13.- To countersign, together with the other ministers, decrees of necessity and urgency and decrees on partial promulgation of laws. Within ten days of their approval, he shall personally submit these decrees to the consideration of the Joint Standing Committee.
The Chief of the Ministerial Cabinet shall not be simultaneously appointed to another ministry.
Section 101.- The Chief of the Ministerial Cabinet shall attend Congress at least once a month, alternating between each House, to report on the progress of the government, notwithstanding the provisions of Section 71. He may be interpellated for the purpose of considering a vote of censure, by the vote of the absolute majority of all the members of either House, and he may be removed by the vote of the absolute majority of the members of each House.
The office of the Cabinet chief has two seats, one of them is located at theSomisa Building (officially known as the "Teniente General Castiñeiras" building), former headquarters of theSociedad Mixta Siderúrgica Argentina (SOMISA), a state-owned metallurgy company created in 1972.[11] Following the privatization of Somisa in 1993, the building was acquired by the national government to be used as the headquarters of the newly created Cabinet Chief's office. The building, designed in themodernist style byMario Roberto Álvarez, was built from 1966 to 1977 and was the first building in Argentina to be made entirely out of 3 mm steel sheets and to be fully welded.[12] It is located onJulio Argentino Roca Avenue in theMonserratbarrio ofBuenos Aires.
The second seat is the Secretariat of Management and Public Employment Building (former "Banco Argentino-Uruguayo"), located on Diagonal Norte and San Martín streets in Buenos Aires. The building was designed by French architect Eduardo Le Monnier, and was seat of defunct Ministry of Modernization,[13] created during the administration ofMauricio Macri in 2015.[14] The ministry was then dissolved and became part of the Chief of the Cabinet of Ministers three years later.[15]
| # | Portrait | Name (Lifespan) | Term of office | Political party | President | |||
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| 1 |  | Eduardo Bauzá (1939–2019) | 8 July 1995 | 5 June 1996 | Justicialist Party | Carlos Menem | ||
| 2 |  | Jorge Rodríguez (born 1944) | 5 June 1996 | 10 December 1999 | Justicialist Party | |||
| 3 | .jpg) | Rodolfo Terragno (born 1943) | 10 December 1999 | 6 October 2000 | Radical Civic Union | Fernando de la Rúa | ||
| 4 | .png) | Chrystian Colombo (born 1952) | 6 October 2000 | 20 December 2001 | Radical Civic Union | |||
| 5 |  | Humberto Schiavoni (born 1958) | 20 December 2001 | 23 December 2001 | Justicialist Party | Ramón Puerta | ||
| 6 | .jpg) | Jorge Obeid (1947–2014) | 23 December 2001 | 30 December 2001 | Justicialist Party | Adolfo Rodríguez Saá | ||
| 7 |  | Antonio Cafiero (1922–2014) | 30 December 2001 | 2 January 2002 | Justicialist Party | Eduardo Camaño | ||
| 8 |  | Jorge Capitanich (born 1964) | 2 January 2002 | 3 May 2002 | Justicialist Party | Eduardo Duhalde | ||
| 9 |  | Alfredo Atanasof (born 1949) | 3 May 2002 | 25 May 2003 | Justicialist Party | |||
| 10 |  | Alberto Fernández (born 1959) | 25 May 2003 | 23 July 2008 | Justicialist Party | Néstor Kirchner | ||
| Cristina Fernández de Kirchner | ||||||||
| 11 | .jpg) | Sergio Massa (born 1972) | 23 July 2008 | 7 July 2009 | Justicialist Party | |||
| 12 | .jpg) | Aníbal Fernández (born 1957) | 7 July 2009 | 10 December 2011 | Justicialist Party | |||
| 13 |  | Juan Manuel Abal Medina (born 1968) | 10 December 2011 | 20 December 2013 | Justicialist Party | |||
| 14 | | Jorge Capitanich (born 1964) | 20 December 2013 | 26 February 2015 | Justicialist Party | |||
| 15 | | Aníbal Fernández (born 1957) | 26 February 2015 | 10 December 2015 | Justicialist Party | |||
| 16 | .jpg) | Marcos Peña (born 1977) | 10 December 2015 | 10 December 2019 | Republican Proposal | Mauricio Macri | ||
| 17 |  | Santiago Cafiero (born 1979) | 10 December 2019 | 20 September 2021 | Justicialist Party | Alberto Fernández | ||
| 18 | .jpg) | Juan Luis Manzur (born 1969) | 20 September 2021 | 15 February 2023 | Justicialist Party | |||
| 19 | .jpg) | Agustín Rossi (born 1959) | 15 February 2023 | 10 December 2023 | Justicialist Party | |||
| 20 | .jpg) | Nicolás Posse (born 1965) | 10 December 2023 | 27 May 2024 | Independent | Javier Milei | ||
| 21 | .jpg) | Guillermo Francos (born 1950) | 27 May 2024 | 31 October 2025 | Independent | |||
| 21 | .jpg) | Manuel Adorni (born 1980) | 31 October 2025 | Present | La Libertad Avanza | |||
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