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The Cabinet of Mexico is a part of the executive branch of the Mexican government. It consists of eighteen Secretaries of State, the head of the federal executive legal office and the Attorney General.

In addition to the legal Executive Cabinet (Gabinete Legal) there are other Cabinet-level administration offices that report directly to the President of the Republic (Gabinete Ampliado). Officials from the legal and extended Cabinet (Gabinete Legal y Ampliado) are subordinate to the President.

[edit] Constitutional and legal basis

The term "Cabinet" does not appear in the Constitution, where reference is made only to the Secretaries of State. Article 89 of the Constitution provides that the President of Mexico can assign and remove Secretaries of State.

Article 26 of the Organic Law of the Federal Public Administration (Ley Orgánica de la Administración Pública Federal) creates the several cabinet secretariats, and the Organic Law of the Attorney General's Office (Ley Orgánica de la Procuraduría General de la República) creates the office of the Attorney General.

The Executive Cabinet does not play a collective legislative or executive role (as do the Cabinets in parliamentary systems). The main interaction that Cabinet members have with the legislative branch are regular testimonials before Congressional committees to justify their actions, and coordinate executive and legislative policy in their respective fields of jurisdiction.

[edit] Secretary selection process

The Executive Cabinet members are appointed by the President of the Republic. Only the Attorney General needs to be approved by the Senate.

Cabinet Secretaries are often selected from past and current governors, senators, and other political office holders. Private citizens such as businessmen or former military officials are also common Cabinet choices.

It is not rare for a Secretary to be moved from one Secretariat to another. For example, former Secretary of Energy Fernando Canales Clariond had previously served as Secretary of Economy and former Secretary of Education Josefina Vázquez Mota has previously served as Secretary of Social Development.

[edit] Cabinet and Cabinet-level officials

[edit] Cabinet

Department	Title	Incumbent	Affiliation
Secretariat of the Interior	Secretary of Interior	Fernando Gómez-Mont	PAN
Secretariat of Foreign Affairs	Secretary of Foreign Affairs (Spanish: Secretaria de Relaciones Exteriores)	Patricia Espinosa	Independent
Secretariat of Finance	Secretary of Finance	Ernesto J. Cordero	PAN
Secretariat of National Defense	Secretary of Defensa Nacional	Guillermo Galván Galván	Independent
Secretariat of the Navy (Spanish: Secretaría de Marina-Armada de México)	Secretary of the Navy	Mariano Francisco Saynez Mendoza	Independent
Secretariat of Economy	Secretary of Economy	Gerardo Ruiz Mateos	PAN
Secretariat of Social Development	Secretary of Social Development	Heriberto Félix Guerra	PAN
Secretariat of Public Security	Secretary of Public Security	Genaro García Luna	Independent
Secretariat of Communications and Transportation	Secretary of Communications	Juan Francisco Molinar Horcasitas	PAN
Secretariat of Labor and Social Security (Spanish: Secretaría del Trabajo y Previsión Social)	Secretary of Labor	Javier Lozano Alarcón	PAN
Secretariat of the Environment and Natural Resources	Secretary of Environment	Juan Rafael Elvira Quesada	PAN
Secretariat of Energy	Secretary of Energy	Georgina Kessel	Independent
Secretariat of Agriculture, Livestock, Rural Development, Fisheries and Nourishment (Spanish: Secretaría de Agricultura, Ganadería, Desarrollo Rural, Pesca y Alimentación)	Secretary of Agriculture (Spanish: Secretario de Agricultura, Ganadería, Desarrollo Rural, Pesca y Alimentación)	Francisco Javier Mayorga Castañeda	PAN
Secretariat of Public Education	Secretary of Education	Alonso Lujambio Irazabal	Independent
Secretariat of Health	Secretary of Health	José Ángel Córdoba Villalobos	PAN
Secretariat of Tourism	Secretary of Tourism	Rodolfo Elizondo Torres	PAN
Secretariat of Agrarian Reform (Spanish: Secretaría de la Reforma Agraria)	Secretary of Agrarian Reform (Spanish: secretario de la Reforma Agraria)	Abelardo Escobar Prieto	PAN
Secretariat of Civil Service (Spanish: Secretaría de la Función Pública)	Secretary of Civil Service (Spanish: secretario de la Función Pública)	Salvador Vega Casillas	PAN
Attorney General's Office	Attorney General	Arturo Chávez	PAN
Chief of Presidential Guard	Estado Mayor Presidencial	Jesus Javier Castillo Cabrera	Military

[edit] Cabinet-level administration offices

Some positions are not part of the legal Executive Cabinet, but have cabinet-level rank therefore their incumbents are considered members of the extended cabinet (Gabinete ampliado).

Some of the cabinet-level administration offices are:

Office	Title	Incumbent
National Council for Culture and Arts	President	Consuelo Sáizar Guerrero
Sistema Nacional para el Desarrollo Integral de la Familia	Director	Cecilia Landerreche
National Institute for Women	President	María del Rocio García Gaytan
National Sports Commission	President	Bernardo de la Garza
Oficina de la Presidencia	Chief of Staff	Patricia Flores Elizondo
Coordinación General de Comunicación Social	Presidential spokesman	Maximiliano Cortázar Lara
National Commission for the Development of Indigenous Peoples	Commissioner of Indigenous Peoples	Luis H. Álvarez

[edit] Former cabinet positions

[edit] External links

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