Lucia Žitňanská
Slovak Minister of Justice and politician
Lucia Žitňanská (born 3 June 1964) is a Slovak politician and member of Most–Híd. She served as Minister of Justice in the third government of Robert Fico from 2016 to 2018. In 2006 she served as deputy prime minister and Minister of Justice of Slovakia and in 2010 until 2012 she again served as Minister of Justice in the cabinet of Iveta Radičová.
Legal career
In January 2013, the law firm TaylorWessing e/n/w/c announced to the lawyers that Žitňanská had become its "new reinforcement", wanting to renew her lawyer's license. Since June 2013, she has been named on the list of arbitrators of the Vienna Arbitration Court.
Political career
2012 Slovak parliamentary election
In the 2012 Slovak parliamentary election, Žitňanská received almost four times as many votes (103,517), thus ahead of the SDKÚ-DS chairman Mikuláš Dzurinda and vice-chairman Ivan Mikloš, the latter of whom received 56,771 preferential votes.
A few days after the elections, Dzurinda announced that he would not apply for a position in the party's presidency and expressed his support for the presidential candidacy of Žitňanská, whom he entrusted to represent the party at the congress. At the SDKÚ-DS congress on 19 May 2012, she was unsuccessful in the 2014 Slovak presidential election when Pavol Frešo defeated her in the second round. On 27 November, Žitňanská replaced Ľudovít Kaník as chairman of the SDKÚ parliamentary club. On 12 December 2013, she resigned from SDKÚ-DS with Miroslav Beblavý and Magdaléna Vášáryová.
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