
Ministry of the Interior and Public Security (Chile)
The Ministry of the Interior and Public Security is the cabinet-level office of home affairs in Chile, in charge of "maintaining public order, security and social peace" within the country. It is also charged with planning, directing, coordinating, executing, controlling, and informing the domestic policies formulated by the President of Chile. As responsible for local government, the minister supervises all non-elected regional authorities. The current Minister of the Interior and Public Security is Víctor Pérez Varela. His Undersecretary of the Interior is Juan Francisco Galli and the Undersecretary of Regional Development is Claudio Alvarado Andrade. In the absence of the President of Chile, the Minister of the Interior becomes "Vice President"; however this is not a true Vice Presidential position, but rather a position of a Designated Acting President, as the post of Vice President of Chile has no existence independent from the Ministership of the Interior since 1833.