King Felipe VI continues with the changes that he has been introducing in his House throughout this year, which marks the tenth anniversary of his reign, with two other new changes that will take effect at the beginning of December, according to Zarzuela sources have reported.
After the arrival of Camilo Villarino As head of the King’s Household in March, it will now be the turn of Secretary General Domingo Martínez Palomo, in office since Don Felipe’s accession to the throne, and diplomatic advisor Alfonso Sanz Portolés.
For both positions, Felipe VI has chosen two women. Thus, the new general secretary of the House will be Mercedes Araújo Díaz de Terán, while The diplomatic advisor will be Carmen Castiella. With them there will be four senior positions in the King’s House occupied by women, along with the head of the Queen’s House, María Ocaña, appointed last April, and the auditor, Ana Varela, appointed in August.
Araújocurrent deputy general secretary of Parliamentary Affairs of the Congress of Deputies, is member of the Corps of Lawyers of the Cortes Generales since 1995. In these years he has held different positions of assistance and advice to the governing bodies of the Lower House from the VI to the XV legislatures.
As regards Castiellacurrently it is ambassador in Paraguay. A career diplomat since 1999, she has been assigned to different embassies and advisory positions in the Presidency of the Government and in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in addition to having been director of Cooperation with Latin America and the Caribbean of the Spanish Agency for International Cooperation (AECID). .
Two veterans come out
Both Martínez Palomo and Portolés are two veterans in the King’s House, since both previously served Juan Carlos I. In the case of the first, he had previously been head of the Planning and Coordination Cabinet of the General Secretariat of the House.
For its part, Sanz Portolés joined Zarzuela in 1993first as second head of Protocol, since 2000 as head of Protocol and since 2011 as secretary general of the House. With the arrival of the current monarch, he became head of the Secretariat of the King Emeritus, finally becoming diplomatic advisor to Felipe VI in June 2019.
With the departure of both in December, The King will have renewed practically all of the senior officials of his House throughout this year, many of whom already worked for Juan Carlos I.
They will only remain from now on the Director of Communication, Jordi Gutierrez, in office since 2014 and who already worked for a brief period in Zarzuela; the chief of protocolBernardo Francisco Lizaur, who entered the House in 2005 and has held the current position since 2021; and the head of the Security Service, Miguel Ángel Herráiz, who joined the Security Service in 1998 and was appointed to his position in 2017.
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