Lucia Žitňanská

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Lucia Žitňanská (2011)

Lucia Žitňanská (born June 3, 1964 in Bratislava , born Kozmová ) is a Slovak lawyer , politician and multiple Justice Minister (2006, 2010–2012, since 2016) and a member of the Most – Híd party (from November 2013) and previously the SDKÚ– DS (before 2013).

Life

Lucia Žitňanská graduated in 1987 from the Faculty of Law of the Comenius University in Bratislava with a Dr. jur. from. Since then she has worked as a lawyer in various companies and societies in Bratislava. From 1992 to 2006 she worked in the department of commercial, economic and financial law at Comenius University. Since 2002 she has also been working as a lawyer. As of June 2013, she has been entered in the list of arbitrators for business cases at the arbitration court in Vienna .

She is married to Edward Žitňanský and they have three children together: Lucy, David and Hedu.

Political activity

Lucia Žitňanská was from 2002 to 2006 in the Ministry of Justice as State Secretary for the Kresťanskodemokratické hnutie (KDH - Christian - Democratic Movement). After the resignation of Justice Minister Daniel Lipšic on February 8, 2006, she became Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Justice in the second government of Mikuláš Dzurinda until July 4, 2006 . From 2006 to 2010 she was a member of the National Council of the Slovak Republic for the SDKÚ-DS party (including in the Immunity Committee and a member of the Constitutional and Legal Committee). 2010–2012 she was Minister of Justice in the government of Iveta Radičová . She was unable to accept her election to the European Parliament on June 12, 2010 , as she also served as Minister of Justice.

Since March 2016 she has been Minister of Justice again, now in the Robert Fico III government .

Specialty

The Justice Minister has clearly positioned herself against right-wing extremists who, as self-appointed "railway guards", patrol trains with the approval of the railway. This “vigilante group” is now to be banned by law, even though it enjoys considerable support from the population. The aim is to restore the state's monopoly on the use of force, which the right-wing extremists questioned (Zitnanska: “ Nobody in this state is allowed to arbitrarily replace the police ”). The right-wing extremists mainly acted against minorities such as Roma .

Web links

Commons : Lucia Žitňanská  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

literature

  • Lucia Žitňanská: The Economic Constitution of the Slovak Republic , in: Revolution and Law: System Transformation and Constitutional Development in the Czech and Slovak Republic. Lang Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Vienna [u. a.] 2000.
  • Lucia Žitňanská: Recent changes in the Slovak Commercial Code , with a translation of Act No. 11/1998, Research Institute for Central and Eastern European Business Law, Vienna 1998.
  • Lucia Žitňanská: Slovak antitrust law . Research Institute for Central and Eastern European Business Law, Vienna 1997.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rights patrol in Slovakia , tagesschau.de of August 17, 2016.
  2. ↑ Slovakia wants to ban “Railway Guard” , tagesschau.de of August 18, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Žitňanská, Lucia
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kozmová, Lucia (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Slovak lawyer, Minister of Justice and member of the National Council
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd June 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Bratislava