Secretariat of the Interior

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Secretariat of the Interior

Secretaría de Gobernación
logo of the Secretariat of Home Affairs
Head Office of the Interior
Agency overview
Formed	1853
Preceding agency	Office for Domestic and Foreign Affairs
Jurisdiction	Federal government of Mexico
Headquarters	Abraham González 49 Juárez 06600 Juárez, Mexico City 19°25′52″N 99°09′11″W / 19.43111°N 99.15306°W / 19.43111; -99.15306
Agency executive	Luisa María Alcalde Luján, Secretary
Child agencies	Federal Police (Mexico) General Directorate of Radio, Television and Film Center for Research and National Security National Institute of Migration
Key document	Reglamento Interior
Website	www.segob.gob.mx

The Mexican Secretariat of the Interior (Spanish: Secretaría de Gobernación, lit. 'Secretariat for Governance'; SEGOB) is the public department concerned with the country's domestic affairs, the presenting of the president's bills to Congress, their publication in the Official Journal of the Federation, and certain issues of national security. The country's principal intelligence agency, CISEN, is directly answerable to the Secretary of the Interior. The Secretary is a member of the president's Cabinet and is, given the constitutional implications of the post, the most important cabinet member. Additionally, in case of both temporary and absolute absences of the president, the Secretary of the Interior assumes the president's executive powers provisionally. The Office is practically equivalent to Ministries of the Interior in most other countries (with the exception of the United States) and is occasionally translated to English as Ministry, Secretariat or Department of the Interior.