MEXICAN EXECUTIVE CABINET

The 'Mexican Executive Cabinet' 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

Contents

Constitutional and legal basis

Secretary selection process

Current Cabinet

Cabinet-level administration offices

Former cabinet positions

External links

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 Law for the federal public administration (''Ley Orgánica de la Administración Pública Federal'' ) lists the nineteen legal cabinet positions (the Attorney General is not included in that list although he is considered a member of the legal cabinet). The Law for the federal public administration provides the responsibilities for each legal cabinet position.
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.

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 current Secretary of Education Josefina Vázquez Mota has previously served as Secretary of Social Development.

Current Cabinet

The Legal Executive Cabinet is composed as follows:

Title	Incumbent	Office	Political afilation
Secretary of the Interior	Francisco Javier Ramírez Acuña	Secretariat of the Interior	PAN
Secretary of Foreign Affairs	Patricia Espinosa Cantellano	Secretariat of Foreign Affairs	Independent
Secretary of Finance	Agustín Carstens	Secretariat of Finance and Public Credit	Independent
Secretary of Defense	Guillermo Galván Galván	Secretariat of National Defense	Military
Secretary of the Navy	Mariano Francisco Saynez Mendoza	Secretariat of the Navy	Military
Secretary of Economy	Eduardo Sojo	Secretariat of Economy	Independent
Secretary of Social Development	Beatriz Zavala	Secretariat of Social Development	PAN
Secretary of Public Safety	Genaro García Luna	Secretariat of Public Safety	Independent
Secretary of Communications	Luis Tellez	Secretariat of Communications and Transportation	PRI
Secretary of Labor	Javier Lozano Alarcón	Secretariat of Labor and Social Security	Independent
Secretary of Environment	Juan Rafael Elvira Quesada	Secretariat of Environment and Natural Resources	PAN
Secretary of Energy	Georgina Kessel	Secretariat of Energy	Independent
Secretary of Agriculture	Alberto Cárdenas Jiménez	Secretariat of Agriculture, Livestock, Rural Development, Fisheries and Nourishment	PAN
Secretary of Education	Josefina Vázquez Mota	Secretariat of Public Education	PAN
Secretary of Health	José Ángel Córdoba Villalobos	Secretariat of Health	PAN
Secretary of Tourism	Rodolfo Elizondo Torres	Secretariat of Tourism	PAN
Secretary of the Agrarian Reformation	Abelardo Escobar Prieto	Secretariat of the Agrarian Reformation	PAN
Secretary of the Public Function	Germán Martínez	Secretariat of the Public Function	PAN
Attorney General	Eduardo Medina Mora	Attorney General's Office	Independent
Estado Mayor Presidencial	Jesus Javier Castillo Cabrera	Chief of Presidential Guard	Military

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:

Title	Incumbent	Office
President	Sergio Vela Martínez	Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes
Director	Cecilia Landerreche	Sistema Nacional para el Desarrollo Integral de la Familia
President	Liliana Rojero Luévano	Instituto Nacional de las Mujeres
President	Carlos Manuel Hermosillo Goytortua	Comisión Nacional del Deporte
Jefe de la Oficina de Presidencia (Chief of Staff)	Juan Camilo Muriño	Oficina de la Presidencia
Presidential spokesman	Maximiliano Cortázar Lara	Coordinación General de Comunicación Social
Comisionado de los Pueblos Indígenas	Luis H. Álvarez	Comisión Nacional para el Desarrollo de los Pueblos Indígenas

Former cabinet positions

★ Secretary of Commerce and Industrial Development

★ Secretary of Fisheries

External links

★ Executive Cabinet

★ CIA: Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Mexico