politicos and rulers Flashcards
Alberto Fernández
President of Argentina 10 December 2019 -
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President of Austria 26 January 2017 -
Alexander Van der Bellen
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6th President of Poland
Andrzej Duda : 6 August 2015
Barham Salih
Iraqi Kurdish politician who is the eighth and current President of Iraq.[5]
He is the former Prime Minister of the Kurdistan Region and a former deputy prime minister of the Iraqi federal government. He was elected and assumed office as the President of Iraq on 2 October 2018.
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Benjamin Netanyahu
born 21 October 1949) is an Israelipolitician serving as Prime Minister of Israel since 2009, and previously from 1996 to 1999. Netanyahu is also the Chairman of the Likud – National Liberal Movement. He is the longest-serving prime minister in Israeli history and the first to be born in Israel after the establishment of the state.
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Édouard Philippe is a French politician serving as Mayor of Le Havre since 2020, previously holding the office from 2010 to 2017.[1] He was Prime Minister of France from 15 May 2017 to 3 July 2020 under President Emmanuel Macron.
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Egils Levits
Egils Levits (born 30 June 1955) is a Latvian politician, lawyer, political scientist and jurist who is the President of Latvia since 8 July 2019.[1] He was a Member of the European Court of Justice from 2004 to 2019.
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Emmanuel Macron
Who became President of France in 2017 at age 40
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Erna Solberg
born 24 February 1961) is a Norwegian politician serving as Prime Minister of Norway since 2013 and Leader of the Conservative Party since May 2004.[She has been given the nickname “Iron Erna”, inspired by Margaret Thatcher’s nickname, the “Iron Lady”
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Gitanas Nausėda
Gitanas Nausėda (born 19 May 1964) is a Lithuanian economist, politician and banker, serving as the current president of Lithuania. He was previously the director of Monetary Policy at the Bank of Lithuania from 1996 until 2000, and chief economist to the chairman of SEB bankas from 2008 until 2018.
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Hassan Rouhani
born Hassan Fereydoun (Persian: حسن فریدون) on 12 November 1948) is an Iranian politician serving as the seventhand current President of Iran since 3 August 2013.
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Jacinda Kate Laurell Ardern
born 26 July 1980) is a New Zealand politician who has been serving as the 40thprime minister of New Zealand and leader of the Labour Party since 2017. First elected to the House of Representatives as a list MP in 2008, she has been the member of Parliament (MP) for Mount Albert since March 2017.
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Jair Bolsonaro
born 21 March 1955) is a Brazilian politician and retired military officer who is the 38th president of Brazil. Elected in 2018 as a member of the conservative Social Liberal Party before cutting ties with them, he has been in office since 1 January 2019. From 1991 to 2018 he served in Brazil’s Chamber of Deputies, representing the state of Rio de Janeiro.
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Katerina Sakellaropoulou
born 30 May 1956) is the President of Greece.[2] She was elected to succeed former President of Greece, Prokopis Pavlopoulos, by the Hellenic Parliament on 22 January 2020. Prior to her election as President of Greece, she served as President of the Council of State, the highest administrative court of Greece.
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Kersti Kaljulaid
fifth and current President of Estonia, in office since 10 October 2016.
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Kjell Stefan Löfven
s a Swedish politician serving as Prime Minister of Sweden since 2014 and Leader of the Swedish Social Democratic Partysince 2012.
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Alberto Fernandez
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Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa
(born 12 December 1948) is a Portuguese politician, academic and journalist serving as the 20th and current president of Portugal, since 9 March 2016
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Mark Rutte
born 14 February 1967) is a Dutch politician, historian and teacher serving as Prime Minister of the Netherlands since 2010 and Leader of the People’s Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD) since 2006.
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Mette Frederiksen
born 19 November 1977) is a Danish politician who has been Prime Minister of Denmark since June 2019 and Leader of the Social Democrats since June 2015. The second woman to hold either office, she is also the youngest prime minister in Danish history.
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Narendra Modi
born 17 September 1950) is an Indian politician serving as the 14th and current Prime Minister of India since 2014. He was the Chief Minister of Gujarat from 2001 to 2014 and is the Member of Parliament for Varanasi. Modi is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), a Hindu nationalist volunteer organisation. He is the first prime minister outside of the Indian National Congress to win two consecutive terms with a full majority and the second to complete more than five years in office after Atal Bihari Vajpayee
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Pedro Sanchez
born 29 February 1972) is a Spanish politician who has been Prime Minister of Spain since June 2018.[1][2] He has also been Secretary-General of the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE) since June 2017, having previously held that office from 2014 to 2016.
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Ram Nath Kovind
(born 1 October 1945) is an Indian politician serving as the 14th and current President of India.[2] Prior to his nomination, he served as the 26th Governor of Bihar from 2015 to 2017[3][4] and as a Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha from 1994 to 2006. Kovind was nominated as a presidential candidate by the ruling NDA coalition and won the 2017 presidential election.[5]
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Reuven Rivlin
born 9 September 1939) is an Israeli politician and lawyer who has served as the current president of Israel since 2014. He is a member of the Likud party. Rivlin was Minister of Communications from 2001 to 2003, and subsequently served as Speaker of the Knesset from 2003 to 2006 and 2009 to 2013. On 10 June 2014, he was elected President of Israel.
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Rodrigo Duterte (2019)
Rodrigo Roa Duterte (born March 28, 1945), also known as Digong and Rody, is a Filipino politician who is the current president of the Philippines and the first from Mindanao to hold the office.
Duterte took office at age 71 on June 30, 2016, making him the oldest person to assume the Philippine presidency;
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Rumen Radev
born 18 June 1963) is a Bulgarian politician and former major general who is the current President of Bulgaria since January 22, 2017. Radev previously served as Commander of the Bulgarian Air Force.[1] He won the 2016 presidential election, as an independent candidate supported by the Bulgarian Socialist Party, defeating GERB candidate Tsetska Tsacheva in the second round
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Sanna Marin
(born 16 November 1985) is a Finnish politician who has been Prime Minister of Finland since 10 December 2019. A member of the Social Democratic Party, she has been a member of the Parliament of Finland since 2015, and served as the Minister of Transport and Communications from 6 June to 10 December 2019. After Antti Rinne’s resignation in the wake of the 2019 postal strike, Marin became prime minister on 8 December 2019. At 35, she is the world’s fourth-youngest serving state leader, the youngest female state leader, and Finland’s youngest-ever prime minister.
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Sauli Niinistö.
born 24 August 1948) is a Finnish politician and the 12th president of Finland, in office since 2012.
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Scott Morrison
Scott John Morrison (born 13 May 1968) is an Australian politician who is the 30th and current prime minister of Australia. He took office in August 2018 upon his election as leader of the Liberal Party, and subsequently led the Coalition to victory at the 2019 federal election.
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Sergio Mattarella
Italian politician, jurist, academic and lawyer, who is serving as the 12th and current president of Italy since February 2015.
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Shinzō Abe
born 21 September 1954) is a Japanese politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan and President of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) from 2006 to 2007 and again from 2012 to September 2020. He is the longest-serving prime minister in Japanese history
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Sophie Wilmès
52nd Prime Minister of Belgium since October 2019
Viktor Orbán
born 31 May 1963) is a Hungarian politician who has been Prime Minister of Hungarysince 2010; he was also Prime Minister from 1998 to 2002. He has also been President of Fidesz, a national conservative political party, since 1993, with a brief break between 2000 and 2003.
Xi Jinping
General Secretary of the Communist Party of China since 2012, President of the People’s Republic of China since 2013, and Chairman of the Central Military Commission since 2012
Gerhard Schröder (1998–2005)
Helmut Kohl (1982–98)
Helmut Schmidt (1974–82)
Willy Brandt (1969–74)
Kurt Georg Kiesinger (1966–69)
Ludwig Erhard (1963–66)
Boris Yeltsin 1991–99
Vladimir Putin 1999–2008
Dmitry Medvedev 2008–12
Mikhail Gorbachev 1985–91
chairmen (or first secretaries) of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Konstantin Chernenko 1984–85
Yury Andropov 1982–84
Leonid Brezhnev 1964–82
Nikita Khrushchev 1953–64
Georgy Malenkov 1953
Joseph Stalin 1924–53
Vladimir Ilich Lenin 1917–24
Nicholas II 1894–1917
Hu Jintao
CCP general secretary
2002–12
Jiang Zemin
CCP general secretary
1989–2002
Zhao Ziyang
CCP general secretary
1987–1989
Hu Yaobang
CCP chairman; after September 1982,
general secretary of the CCP1981–1987
Hua Guofeng
CCP chairman
1976–1981
Mao Zedong
CCP chairman
1949–1976
Malcolm Turnbull (2015–18)
Tony Abbott (2013–15)
Julia Gillard (2010–13)
Kevin Rudd (2007–10; 2013)
John Howard (1996–2007)
Paul Keating (1991–96)
Robert Hawke (1983–91)
Malcolm Fraser (1975–83)
Bill English (2016–17)
John Key (2008–16)
Helen Clark (1999–2008)
Jennifer Shipley (1997–99)
James Bolger (1990–97)
Norman E. Kirk (1972–74)
Keith Jacka Holyoake (1960–72)
Leo Varadkar2017–
Enda Kenny2011–17
Brian Cowen2008–11
Bertie Ahern1997–2008
John Bruton1994–97
Albert Reynolds1992–94
Charles Haughey1987–92
Garret FitzGerald1 982–87
William Thomas Cosgrave 1922–32
Eamon de Valera
1932–48
1951–54
1957–59
John Costello
1948–51
1954–57
Jack Lynch
1966–73
1977–79
Liam Cosgrave 1973–77
