Hanna Suchocka
| Hanna Suchocka | |
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| 5th Prime Minister of Poland | |
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In office 8 July 1992 – 26 October 1993 |
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| President | Lech Wałęsa |
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Henryk Goryszewski Paweł Łączkowski |
| Preceded by | Waldemar Pawlak |
| Succeeded by | Waldemar Pawlak |
| Polish Ambassador to the Sovereign Military Order of Malta | |
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In office 10 October 2002 – 30 June 2013 |
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| Appointed by | Aleksander Kwaśniewski |
| Preceded by | Stefan Frankiewicz |
| Succeeded by | Piotr Nowina-Konopka |
| Polish Ambassador to the Holy See | |
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In office 3 December 2001 – 30 June 2013 |
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| Appointed by | Aleksander Kwaśniewski |
| Preceded by | Stefan Frankiewicz |
| Succeeded by | Piotr Nowina-Konopka |
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Minister of Justice and Public Prosecutor General |
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In office 31 October 1997 – 8 June 2000 |
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| Prime Minister | Jerzy Buzek |
| Preceded by | Leszek Kubicki |
| Succeeded by | Lech Kaczyński |
| First Vice-President of the Venice Commission |
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In office 19 December 2015 – 29 April 2016 |
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| Preceded by | Jan Erik Helgesen |
| Succeeded by | vacant |
| Honorary President of the Venice Commission |
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Assumed office 10 June 2016 |
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| Personal details | |
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3 April 1946 Pleszew, Poland |
| Political party |
Alliance of Democrats (Before 1989) Solidarity (1989–1990) Democratic Union (1990–1994) Freedom Union (1994–2000) |
| Alma mater | University of Poznań |
| Religion | Roman Catholicism |
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Hanna Suchocka [ˈxanna suˈxɔt͡ska] (born 3 April 1946) is a Polish political figure, lawyer, professor at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań and Chair of the Constitutional Law Department, former First Vice-President of the Venice Commission. Honorary President of the Venice Commission.
She served as the prime minister of Poland between 8 July 1992 and 26 October 1993 under the presidency of Lech Wałęsa. She is the first woman to hold this post in Poland (with Ewa Kopacz and Beata Szydło holding the post in the 2010s) and was the 14th woman to be appointed and serve as prime minister in the world.
Suchocka was born in Pleszew, Poland, in a Catholic family of chemists. Her grandfather was a University teacher and her grandmother Anna became member of the first Polish parliament after independence in 1918, when women got the right to vote. Suchocka went to law school and became a researcher at the University of Poznan but she was fired when she refused to join the Communist party. She was preoccupied by human rights and undertook a PhD in Constitutional Law in West Germany in 1975.
In 1969 she joined a small non-Marxist 'satellite party', the Democratic Party (SD), and was a member of parliament the Sejm of People's Republic of Poland in 1980-1985. At the same time she was a member and a legal advisor to Solidarity. She was one of only a few MPs who did not to vote in favour of martial law in 1981 and the criminalisation of Solidarity in 1984. The party suspended her (or she resigned), but with the support of Solidarity she was reelected to parliament in 1989. When Solidarity supporters split up into several political parties, Suchocka joined the centre-liberal Democratic Union (DU) and was re-elected to parliament in 1991.
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