Overview

• The Madrid regional government appointed Guillermo Kirkpatrick director general of Cooperation with the State and the European Union during its Oct. 8 council meeting, according to spokesperson Miguel Ángel García Martín.
• The post carries a gross annual salary of €96,000 and he succeeds Cristina Menéndez in the role.
• Kirkpatrick was removed as Spain’s ambassador to South Korea weeks after he met Isabel Díaz Ayuso in Madrid in January, a decision the regional president later criticized publicly.
• The meeting appeared on Ayuso’s official agenda with a distributed photo, and diplomatic sources said the Foreign Ministry had not been informed.
• A career diplomat since 1992 who previously served as ambassador to Honduras and South Korea, he was appointed alongside Francisco Javier Izquierdo Fabre as president of the region’s legal advisory commission.