Beata Szydło

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Beata Szydło (2017)

Beata Maria Szydło ( pronunciation ? / I [ ˈʃɨdwɔ ]; born April 15, 1963 in Oświęcim as Beata Maria Kusińska ) is a Polish politician ( PiS ). She had been a member of the Sejm since 2005 and was Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland from November 16, 2015 until her resignation on December 11, 2017 . She has been a member of the European Parliament for her party since the 2019 European elections in Poland . Audio file / audio sample

Life

Szydło studied ethnography at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków . From 1989 to 1995 she was a doctoral candidate at the Faculty of Philosophy and History at the university. In 1997 she completed a postgraduate course in cultural management at the Warsaw University of Economics and in 2001 at the Cracow University of Economics . From 1987 to 1995 Szydło worked as an assistant at the Historical Museum of the City of Krakow; afterwards she was head of a department in the cultural center in Libiąż in the Lesser Poland Voivodeship . From 1998 to 2005 she was mayor of Brzeszcze .

Political career

Szydło has been a member of the Law and Justice party (PiS) since 2005 and was elected to the Sejm of the 5th legislative period in the constituency of Chrzanów ( election on September 25, 2005 ). She was also able to hold her mandate in the election on October 21, 2007 ( VI. Period ), the election on October 9, 2011 ( VII. ) And the election on October 25, 2015 ( Eighth legislative period). Since July 24, 2010 she has been the deputy chairwoman of the PiS.

For the presidential election on May 10, 2015 , she was the successful campaign manager for PiS candidate Andrzej Duda .

On June 20, 2015, Jarosław Kaczyński , chairman of the PiS, proposed her as his party's top candidate for the parliamentary election on October 25 , in which her party achieved an absolute majority.

Polish Prime Minister

Demonstration in Warsaw on May 7, 2016

Szydło was sworn in by incumbent President Duda on November 16, 2015 and has since led the government together with her cabinet . The government declaration before the Sejm took place on November 18, 2015, followed by a vote of confidence.

Immediately after the establishment of her cabinet, she initiated several reform processes in December 2015, for which she was criticized both by the parliamentary opposition and by representatives of Polish civil society, including those represented by the Committee for the Defense of Democracy . The focus of the criticism was, among other things, changed guidelines for the Constitutional Court , which triggered a constitutional crisis, as well as a new regulation of the public service media . On the latter, Szydło was criticized by the EU Commissioner for Digital Economy and Society, Günther Oettinger , who called for the Polish government to be placed under the supervision of the EU Commission in the media sector . On January 19, 2016, she herself faced questions from her critics in a debate in the EU Parliament .

Many media and political scientists viewed Szydło as a mere vicarious agent of Kaczyński. At the beginning it was also speculated that she was only a placeholder for her party leader, who, due to his poor popularity ratings, had not run as a top candidate and would later take over the office himself.

On December 7, 2017 Beata Szydło submitted her resignation. On December 11, 2017, former Finance Minister Mateusz Morawiecki took over the post of Prime Minister. Beata Szydło became his deputy without a specific area of ​​activity.

European Parliament

During the 2019 Polish elections to the European Parliament , she was elected as the representative of the Prawo i Sprawiedliwość party with a record 525,811 votes. She came to the group of European Conservatives and Reformers . On July 10, 2019, she ran for chair of the Employment and Social Affairs Committee, but lost the vote with a result of 21:27 votes. On July 15, 2019, she ran again and also lost with the result of 19:34 votes. She is also a member of the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection.

Private

Beata Szydło has been married to Edward Szydło since 1987 and is the mother of two sons, Tymoteusz and Błażej. She is Catholic and against abortion. Her son Tymoteusz graduated from the higher seminary in Cracow.

At the beginning of February 2017, Szydło was involved in a serious car accident as Prime Minister. Her chauffeur had to evade because of another vehicle and drove her car into a tree at great speed. Szydło spent several days in a special clinic due to an injury. This accident was the reason to discuss the general quality of the state personal protection BOR , as there had already been several car accidents with members of the government.

literature

  • Sejm Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej. VII kadencja. Przewodnik , Wydawnictwo Sejmowe, Warszawa 2012, p. 420.

Web links

Commons : Beata Szydło  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Prezydent Andrzej Duda powołał nowy rząd. Pokieruje nim Beata Szydło. In: wyborcza.pl. November 16, 2015, accessed November 17, 2015 (Polish).
  2. ↑ Jutro w Sejmie expose Beaty Szydło i głosowanie nad wotum zaufania dla rządu. In: dziennik.pl. November 17, 2015, accessed November 17, 2015 (Polish).
  3. ↑ Oettinger wants to put Poland under supervision
  4. ^ FAZ.net: Poland's Prime Minister Szydlo resigns. Retrieved December 7, 2017.
  5. ↑ Kordon sanitarny wokół Beaty Szydło "Rzeczpospolita" from July 10, 2019, accessed on July 17, 2019
  6. ^ Car crash puts Poland's prime minister in hospital. The Guardian, February 11, 2017, accessed December 8, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Szydło, Beata
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Szydło, Beata Maria (full name); Kusińska, Beata Maria (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish Sejm MPs
DATE OF BIRTH April 15, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Oświęcim