Beata Szydło

Also known as Beata Szydlo, Beata Maria Szydło, Beata Maria Kusińska

Polish politician, former Prime Minister of Poland, member of European Parliament

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Beata Szydło is a Polish politician who served as Prime Minister of Poland and currently works as a member of the European Parliament. She matters because she held one of Poland's highest political offices and continues to participate in European-level governance and decision-making.

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Beata Maria Szydło (née Kusińska; born 15 April 1963) is a Polish politician who has served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) since 2019. A member of Law and Justice (PiS), she previously served as the prime minister of Poland from 2015 to 2017. Szydło became the third woman to hold the office, after Hanna Suchocka and her immediate predecessor Ewa Kopacz. She currently is a vice-chair of the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) group in the European Parliament. She is considered to have been a de jure leader of Poland, with the de facto leader being Jarosław Kaczyński, the leader of the party Szydło is a member of.

She successfully led the presidential campaign of Andrzej Duda, Law and Justice's nominee for President of Poland, to victory. In June 2015, Szydło won internal endorsement to be her party's candidate for prime minister at the forthcoming parliamentary election. On 25 October, Law and Justice went on to win majority government for the first time in the country's history; Szydło was duly appointed Prime Minister on 16 November by President Duda.