The Administrative Department of the Presidency of the Republic ( es, Departamento Administrativo de la Presidencia de la República, DAPRE) consists of the immediate staff of the

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, as well as multiple levels of support staff reporting to the President. The DAPRE is the Executive Administrative Department that assists the President in the exercise of its duties by lending the administrative support and related services to fulfil his official and constitutional duties. The Director of the Administrative Department of the Presidency of the Republic is ''

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'' the of the Office of the President and the President's

Chief-of-Staff The title chief of staff (or head of staff) identifies the leader of a complex organization such as the armed forces, institution, or body of persons and it also may identify a principal staff officer (PSO), who is the coordinator of the supporti ...

History

At the time of independence, the managing of the Office of the President consisted of a Private Secretary and a

scribe A scribe is a person who serves as a professional copyist, especially one who made copies of manuscripts before the invention of automatic printing. The profession of the scribe, previously widespread across cultures, lost most of its promi ...

. ''Law 3 of 1898'' suppressed the offices of Private Secretary and Scribe, creating in place the Secretariat-General of the Presidency of the Republic (''Secretaría General de la Presidencia de la República''), made up of the Secretary-General, the High Officer, and two scribes. By 1956, the need to provide the different offices of the President of the Republic a better organisation and to improve the efficacy in the fulfilment of presidential duties, forced the President to take action. On 27 January 1956, the Supreme General in Chief

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, issued ''Decree 133 of 1956'', which transformed the General Secretariat into the Administrative Department of the Presidency of the Republic, as the agency in charge of coordinate, control and administrate the different dependencies of the Presidency. Further changes were made during the administration of President

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, who issued ''Decree 146 of 1976'', on 7 January of said year, restructuring the agency into five departments, the General Secretariat, the Presidential Advisers, the Secretariat of Information and Press, the Private Secretary, and the Military House.

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