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Apr 15, 1963 Oświęcim, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland 61 years old
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About Beata Szydo
- Beata Maria Szydlo (Polish: [b?'ata 'marja '??dw?] (listen); née Kusinska [ku'?ij~ska]; born 15 April 1963) is a Polish politician who has been a Member of the European Parliament since 2019, and who previously served as Prime Minister of Poland from 2015 to 2017, as a member of the Law and Justice party.
- She was the third woman to hold the office, after Hanna Suchocka and her immediate predecessor Ewa Kopacz.In March 2015, Szydlo won internal endorsement to be her party's candidate for Prime Minister at the forthcoming parliamentary election.
- Shortly after this, she successfully led the presidential campaign of Andrzej Duda, Law and Justice's nominee for President of Poland, to victory.
- On 25 October, Law and Justice went on to win majority government for the first time in the party's history, and Szydlo was duly appointed Prime Minister on 16 November by President Duda. She was a vocal critic of numerous European Union policies, particularly on immigration, and robustly defended her government from criticism by other EU leaders.
- During her time in office, she was ranked 31st in Forbes magazine's ranking of the world's 100 most powerful women.
- and the 10th among the most influential female political leaders.
- In December 2017, she was abruptly forced to resign as Prime Minister after Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the Chairman of Law and Justice, withdrew confidence from her to continue as the party's lead election candidate within the Sejm.
- Her resignation was accepted by President Duda, who at the same time designated her deputy, Mateusz Morawiecki to be the new prime minister.
- Morawiecki took office three days later, and immediately appointed Szydlo his Deputy Prime Minister.Szydlo stood for the European Parliament at the 2019 European Parliament elections, and was elected to represent the constituency of Lesser Poland and Swietokrzyskie; she received the highest number of individual votes of any candidate in Poland.
- She subsequently resigned as Deputy Prime Minister.
