Ewa Kopacz

Ewa Kopacz (2015)

Listen to Ewa Bożena Kopacz [ ˈɛva bɔˈʐɛna ˈkɔpat anhören ] ^{? / i} (born December 3, 1956 in Skaryszew ) is a Polish doctor, politician and was Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland between September 22, 2014 and November 16, 2015 . Before that, she was Minister of Health from 2007 to 2011 and Speaker of Parliament from 2011 to 2014 . Kopacz is a member of the liberal- conservative Citizens Platform (PO) .

In the parliamentary elections in Poland in 2015 she was the top candidate of her party, but lost to her competitor Beata Szydło from the national conservative Law and Justice (PiS) . In 2019 she was elected to the European Parliament and is one of the 14 Vice-Presidents .

origin

Kopacz, née Lis, grew up in Radom as the daughter of a locksmith and a seamstress. In 1981 she completed her studies in general medicine and paediatrics at the Lublin Medical Academy . She then ran an independent medical center in Szydłowiec until 2001 . At the same time, she was an advisor in the Mazovian Voivodeship Parliament from 1998 to 2001 .

Political career

From 1994 to 2001 Kopacz belonged to the liberal Freedom Union (Polish Unia Wolności ) party, in which she was, among other things, chairwoman of the district association in Radom. Before the 2001 parliamentary elections , she joined the liberal-conservative citizens' platform . As their candidate, she succeeded in entering the Sejm , the lower house of parliament. She defended her mandate in the 2005 parliamentary elections . She was elected chairman of the health committee and in 2006 became the head of the Voivodeship Association of the Civic Platform in Mazovia. In the early parliamentary elections in 2007 , she won again in her constituency in Radom and then took over the health department in the cabinet of the new Prime Minister Donald Tusk . In the same year she brought up the controversial support for in vitro fertilization in Poland , which earned her sharp criticism from the Catholic clergy .

After the crash of the Polish presidential plane near Smolensk on April 10, 2010, she personally took part in the autopsy and identification of the victims in Smolensk and Moscow.

After the parliamentary elections in 2011 , Kopacz was elected President of Parliament, she was the first woman to head the Sejm. In 2013 she was elected as the successor to Grzegorz Schetyna as deputy chairwoman of the citizens' platform . After Tusk's nomination as President of the European Council , she was appointed Polish Prime Minister on September 15, 2014 by President Bronisław Komorowski as the second woman after Hanna Suchocka . Her successor as President of Parliament was the previous Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski .

After the defeat of her PO party in the 2015 parliamentary elections, she and her government resigned in accordance with custom on November 12, 2015 at the first meeting of the newly elected Sejm, but continued to run until the new government under Beata Szydło took office .

Immediately after the parliamentary elections, internal party criticism of Kopacz's leadership arose. This culminated in her defeat by Sławomir Neumann for the parliamentary group chairmanship in the Sejm. Kopacz then wanted to face a vote of confidence, but announced that he would no longer apply for the party chairmanship in the regular new election. The new party chairman was her party rival Grzegorz Schetyna in January 2016 . Since then she has been a simple member of the Sejm.

In the 2019 European elections , she successfully stood on the list of the "European Coalition", a joint list of PO, SLD, PSL, Greens and Nowoczesna. She was elected Vice President of the EU Parliament on July 3, 2019 with 461 votes in the first ballot.

Private

Kopacz was married to the public prosecutor and sports official Marek Kopacz until 2008 . Their daughter Katarzyna Kopacz, who came from this marriage, also completed a medical training and works as a gynecologist at the clinic of the Medical University of Gdansk .

Honors

• Royal Order of Merit , Norway (2012)
• Order of St. Charles , Monaco (2012)
• Order of the Marienland Cross , Estonia (2014)

Web links

Commons : Ewa Kopacz  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website of Ewa Kopacz as Prime Minister (English, Polish)
• Official profile of Ewa Kopacz as a member of the Polish Parliament (Polish)
• Brief portrait of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
• Entry on Ewa Kopacz in the European Parliament 's database of deputies

Individual evidence

1. ↑ FAZ.net, Tusks loyal successor , September 11, 2014
2. ↑ TVN24.pl, Ewa Kopacz prowadzi Ministerstwo Zdrowia 13 November, 2007
3. ↑ Sejm.pl, Posłowie szóstej kadencji , October 21, 2007
4. ↑ Dziennik.pl, Zapłodnienie in vitro jest warte wsparcia , November 27, 2007 ( Memento of the original from January 12, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
5. ↑ Gazeta.ie, In vitro to rodzaj niegodziwej aborcji , December 18, 2007
6. ↑ Ewa Kopacz o Smoleńsku: Te obrazy wciąż wracają ( Memento of the original from October 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Newsweek Polska, May 4, 2013 
7. ↑ PolskaTimes.pl, Ewa Kopacz marszałkiem Sejmu. Wybór poprzedziły pytania o Smoleńsk , November 8, 2011
8. ↑ Welt.de, Mogherini becomes chief diplomat, Tusk Council President , August 30, 2014
9. ^ Poland: Head of Parliament Kopacz appointed new Prime Minister spiegel.de, September 15, 2014
10. ↑ [1]
11. ^ The new European Parliament Vice-Presidents
12. ↑ Dziennik.pl, Jak się rozwiodła Ewa Kopacz , July 9, 2008
13. ^ SE, pl, Oto córka premier Kopacz , September 17, 2014