Erika Szűcs | |
Order: | Minister of Social Affairs and Labour |
Term Start: | 5 May 2008 |
Term End: | 14 April 2009 |
Predecessor: | Mónika Lamperth |
Successor: | László Herczog |
Birth Date: | 2 April 1951 |
Birth Place: | Budapest, Hungary |
Profession: | politician, economist |
Party: | MSZMP, MSZP, DK |
Children: | 2 |
Erika Mária Szűcs (born April 2, 1951) is a Hungarian politician and economist, who served as Minister of Social Affairs and Labour from May 5, 2008 to April 14, 2009 in the second cabinet of Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsány. She was a member of the National Assembly of Hungary from August 27, 2004 to May 5, 2014.
At the end of 2010 she joined Democratic Coalition Platform founded by Gyurcsány and became a member of its leadership. When the platform split from the Hungarian Socialist Party (MSZP) on October 22, 2011 she joined to newly formed party and left the MSZP and its parliamentary group.[1]