La Zarzuela places a girl accountable for Queen Letizia's Secretariat for the primary time | Spain | EUROtoday

For the primary time, a girl will likely be accountable for Queen Letizia's Secretariat. María Dolores Ocaña Madrid, State lawyer, will likely be appointed to hold out this work, changing General José Zuleta, 63, who had headed that workplace since 2014, based on La Zarzuela sources. The alternative will take impact on April 30.

In addition, two different extra adjustments will likely be carried out within the Royal Household. The Head of the Coordination and Planning Cabinet, which is at present headed by Emilio Tomé de la Vega, 70 years previous, will fall to Major General Juan Carlos González Díez. In the approaching days, Zarzuela may also take over from Isaías Peral Puebla, 71 years previous, till now on the head of the Head of Administration, Infrastructure and Services.

Since 2020, María Dolores Ocaña Madrid was head of the State Attorney's Office within the Ministry of Education and Professional Training, with Minister Pilar Alegría. Between 2018 and 2020, she was undersecretary of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, led by Luis Planas. As a State lawyer, she labored in Zamora, within the Contentious-Administrative courts of the National Court and within the Government delegation in Madrid.

These appointments, which is able to turn out to be efficient as soon as they’re revealed within the Official State Gazette, correspond to Felipe VI. This is a designation contemplated in article 65.2 of the Constitution, whose textual content states: “The King freely appoints and relieves the civil and military members of his House.”

At the start of this yr, the King relieved the pinnacle of the King's Household and his most direct collaborator, Jaime Alfonsín Alfonso, 67, and appointed Camilo Villarino Marzo, a 59-year-old diplomat, who till now was Chief of Staff of the EU High Representative for Foreign and Security Policy, Josep Borrell. This alternative had been anticipated for a very long time, since Alfonsín had expressed his need to go away workplace after three a long time in La Zarzuela.

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