page_title: Beata Szydło
section_title: Prime Minister of Poland, 2015–2017
hierarchical_section_title: Beata Szydło / Prime Minister of Poland, 2015–2017
caption_attribution_description: Polski: Beata Szydło. Kraków 11.11.2016 PTG Sokół Józefa Piłsudskiego 27 - 33-332 Jarosław Kaczyński Beata Maria Szydło Ryszard Terlecki Thomasz Sakievicz, Ryszard Terlecki English: Beata Szydło. National Independence Day. Taken on the 11th of November, 2016. Krakow, Central Europe. Poland celebrated on this day its independence. In 1918, after 123 years of partition by the Russian Empire, the Kingdom of Prussia and the Habsburg Empire Poland's sovereignty was restored. PTG Sokół Józefa Piłsudskiego 27 33-332, Poland, Central Europe. Magyar: Beata Szydło. Nemzeti Függetlenség Napja. A felvétel 2016. november 11-én, szombaton készült a Sokól csarnokban, Krakkóban, a Pilsudkiego utca 27 szám alatt. Az állami ünnepségen felszólalt Jarosław Kaczyński a Jog és Igazságosság (lengyelül Prawo i Sprawiedliwość, PiS) párt elnöke, Beata Maria Szydło Ryszard Terlecki és Thomasz Sakievicz. Az ünnepségen részt vett a Civil Összefogás Fórum képviseletében Csizmadia László, a CÖF elnöke is. Cimkék: PIS Jarosław Kaczyński 2016-11-11 Prawo i Sprawiedliwość Források: http://magyaridok.hu/kulfold/orjongo-liberalis-duh-mar-elnokgyilkossagban-gondolkodnak-1167322/ Krakkó PTG Sokół Józefa Piłsudskiego 27 33-332 Kraków
context_page_description: Beata Maria Szydło 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. Szydło is Vice-Chair of the European Conservatives and Reformists group.
  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, and Szydło 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.
context_section_description: On 18 October 2015 she made her keynote address (pl), further receiving 236 votes in favour of her government. One of her first decisions was to remove the European Union flag from press conferences at the Chancellery of the Prime Minister and to replace the clock in the meeting hall of the Council of Ministers with a Cross. In meetings with voters, she promised to reduce the retirement age and raise the minimum wage. She declared introducing the 500+ programme will be her priority as Prime Minister. The programme was introduced on 1 April 2016, supplying families with 500PLN for every child, starting from the second child. It is intended to serve as a demographic stimulus, and enhance population growth.
  One of the biggest controversies during her administration, the Polish Constitutional Court crisis, 2015 was officially criticized by the European Parliament, which, on 13 April 2016, passed a resolution declaring that the Parliament "is seriously concerned that the effective paralysis of the Constitutional Tribunal in Poland endangers democracy, human rights and the rule of law".
  Beata Szydło's government was strongly opposed to the UK's effort to stop EU immigrants claiming in-work benefits for four years if they moved to Britain. Increasing the support for Brexit, Beata Szydło did offer support in return for a permanent base of NATO troops on Polish territory.
  On 7 December, she resigned from office, along with all members of her cabinet. The next day her resignation was accepted by the President Andrzej Duda, who at the same time designated Finance Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki as the new Prime Minister.
caption: Beata Szydło speaking on National Independence Day in Kraków, 2016
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