Lucia Ďuriš Nicholsonová, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Lucia Ďuriš Nicholsonová

Slovak politician and journalist

Date of Birth: 28-Nov-1976

Place of Birth: Bratislava, Bratislava Region, Slovakia

Profession: politician, journalist

Nationality: Slovakia

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius


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About Lucia Ďuriš Nicholsonová

  • Lucia Duriš Nicholsonová (née Kubovicová; born 28 November 1976) is a Slovak politician and Member of the European Parliament.
  • She is a former journalist, former State Secretary of the Ministry of Labor, Social and Family Affairs, and former vice-chairwoman of the National Council of Slovakia.
  • As a member of the Freedom and Solidarity political party, Nicholsonová was elected as a member of the National Council during the 2010 Slovak parliamentary election, served as State Secretary and later became part of the Social Affairs Committee.
  • She became a vice-chairwoman of the National Council of the Slovak Republic in 2016 and programme leader of the Freedom and Solidarity party for socially excluded communities.
  • She has not dealt only with the social area but was also a loud and frequent critic of the government corruption scandals, including corrupted redistribution of euro-funds in agriculture or social and labour policies .
  • Under her first married name of Lucia Nicholsonová she worked for at least ten media outlets in Slovakia, whereas her first husband, Tom Nicholson, was also a journalist, working for the Slovak newspaper SME and English-language newspaper The Slovak Spectator. She remarried in June 2016, subsequently being known as Lucia Duriš Nicholsonová.
  • Duriš Nicholsonová was part of a small delegation from the Slovak parliament to meet the Dalai Lama during his visit to Slovakia in October 2016.
  • Duriš Nicholsonová is well-known for the reform she proposed as an opposition politician to improve the Roma minority living conditions and prevent their further socio-economic exclusion, consisting of early pre-schooling for children from excluded communities and more effective, specialised and motivational social support and tailored assistance.
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  • In May 2019 she became one of the 14 Members of the European Parliament from Slovakia, as her political party Freedom and Solidarity (SaS) has won 9.60% of votes, resulting in two mandates.
  • She has focused on employment and social matters, including rights of persons with disabilities and active ageing, during her European election campaign and praised work-life balance incentives of the European Parliament .
  • Duriš Nicholsonová is now a member of the European Parliament's Committee on Employment and Social Affairs (EMPL) and Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs Committee (LIBE).
  • On 18 July 2019 she was elected as chair of the EMPL Committee.

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