Profile: New Polish PM Beata Szydlo

On Friday, Beata Szydlo was officially nominated by the president of Poland as the new Polish prime minister.

While leaving the presidential palace, Szydlo said her priority is "to effectively form the government and announce her political program, as there is a lot of work to do."

Szydlo as a politician has been carefully observed by Polish citizens since the May 2015 presidential election. Szydlo was the mastermind behind the election team supporting Andrzej Duda, the incumbent president of Poland, and is believed to have helped him win the election.

Her own political career, however, developed long before May 2015.

Szydlo was born in 1963 in Oswiecim in Southern Poland, but she spent her youth in neighboring Przecieszyn. She has been trained as a historian and ethnographer.

Between 1998 and 2005, she was the mayor of Brzeszcze town.

Since 2005, she was a parliament member from the Law and Justice party. As a parliament member, she was a member of Public Finance Parliamentary Commission and Economic Parliamentary Commission.

She was first named the Law and Justice candidate for prime minister in June 2015, during the parliamentary election campaign.

After winning the election, the Law and Justice Political Committee put forward her candidature for PM, which was formally approved on Friday by President Andrzej Duda.

Szydlo is expected to put forward the names of 26 ministers in her government on Monday and deliver her inaugural speech on Wednesday. Endit