Top 10 Most Powerful Politicians of the World

 10 Most Powerful Politicians

Few people alter the course of history and enter the list of Top 10 most Powerful Politicians who have a huge part in shaping the world as we know it today. Politicians propose and create laws and policies and govern the land and by extension, its people. The world has seen many politicians, from conservatives to liberals, dictators to democratic, aggressive to charismatic and they play a very vital role in the development of a country in all aspects be it economic, socio-economic, technological, capacity building, and environmental. A politician is not necessarily a good leader we have many examples of that in world history but good leadership skills become a competitive advantage for the country.

Every politician strives for the support of his/her people, and presents a manifesto and those with a similar mindset and beliefs become a big support for the politician. If the politician works for the people, he/she is bound to get huge support from the people because these individuals have the power to change the destiny of nations and people put their trust in them.

Here is a list of “Top 10 Most Powerful Politicians in the World” as of 2018.

10. Dilma Rousseff

Country: Brazil

Dilma Rousseff was born on December 14^th, 1947. She is a Brazilian politician and Brazil’s first-ever female President. Now she became Brazil’s 36^th President and held the position from 2011, then reelected in 2014 till 2016 when she was impeached and removed from office on charges of corruption and embezzlement of Government funds. Dilma was the first woman to hold the Brazilian presidency and focused a lot on human rights, multilateralism, peace, and nonintervention. Her influence in Brazil has landed her at number 10 in our “Top 10 Most Powerful Politicians of the World”.

9. Hillary Clinton

Country: U.S.A

Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton was born on October 26^th, 1947. Hillary is an American Politician and Diplomat who also served as the First Lady of the United States from 1993 to 2001, as U.S Senator from New York from 2001 to 2009, 67^th United States Secretary of State from 2009 to 2013, and as the nominee from the Democratic Party for President of the United States in the 2016 election. Talk about being an important figure in the United States! During her 2016 campaign for president, Hillary and her team laid out a detailed and comprehensive progressive vision for America’s future.

8. Angela Merkel

Country: Germany

Angela Dorothea Merkel was born on 17^th July 1954. She is a German politician who has been serving as the Chancellor of Germany since 2005 and since 2000 she has been the leader of the center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU). Angela Merkel is also famously known as the de facto leader of the European Union. She is also well known as the most powerful woman in the world and the leader of the free world. And that makes her one of the most powerful politicians in the world.

7. Narendra Modi

Country: India

Narendra Damodardas Modi was born on 17^th September 1950. Modi is an Indian politician serving as the 14th and current Prime Minister of India since 2014. Modi, a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), is a Hindu nationalist and member of the right-wing Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). From selling tea to becoming the 14^th Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi is worth mentioning in the list of “Top 10 most powerful Politicians of the world”

6. David Cameron

Country: England

David William Donald Cameron was born on October 9^th, 1966. He is a British politician who was born in an upper-middle-class family. Cameron served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2010 to 2016. His list of achievements is endless. He was a Member of Parliament from 2001 to 2016. In October 2016, Cameron resigned in October 2016 after the result of the referendum which came to be known as Brexit came out to be 52% to 48% in favor of leaving the European Union. Despite conflicted beliefs, he still amassed huge support from Britain and this is the reason he is number 6^th on the list of Top 10 most powerful politicians.

5. Manuel Valls

Country: France

Manuel Carlos Valls Galfetti was born on 13^th August 1962. He has a Spanish origin but is a French Politician who served as the Prime Minister of France from 2014-2016. He belonged to the Socialist Party and was also nominated in the 2017 Presidential election but lost to the opposition in the second round. Valls also studied music theory, music composition, and orchestration. He has composed many symphonic works and also taught composition at the University of Barcelona. His extraordinary personality makes him one of the most powerful politicians in the world.

4. Donald Trump

Country: U.S.A

In a list of the top 10 most powerful politicians, it is not possible not to mention Donald Trump. Donald John Trump was born on 14^th June 1946. Trump is the 45^th current President of the United States of America. Before entering politics he was a business tycoon and a TV personality. Donald Trump is the very definition of an American success story from his excellent endeavors in business to being the president of the United States.

3. Vladimir Putin

Country: Russia

Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin was born on 7^th October 1952. Putin does not need an introduction, everybody is aware of his Russian descent. He is the former intelligence officer serving the President of Russia and he was the Prime Minister of Russia from 1999 to 2000 and again between 2008 and 2012. Putin has played a very vital role in the development of Russia and has amassed support like no other from the people of his country, this is why he is known as one of the most powerful politicians in the universe.

2. Xi Jinping

Country: China

Xi Jinping was born on 15^th June 1953. Jinping is a Chinese Nationalist and a Chinese Politician serving as General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and the President of China. Because of his contributions, he has been given many prestigious titles by his people such as China’s “Paramount Leader” and “Core Leader”. He rose to fame because of his signature anti-corruption campaign. Because of his notable contribution, he has landed number 2 in our list of “Top 10 most powerful politicians of the world”.

1. Imran Khan

Country: Pakistan

The list of the most powerful politicians in the world is incomplete without the mention of Imran Khan Niazi. He was born on 5^th Oct 1952. He is a Pakistani politician and now in the future, Pakistan become the most powerful country in the world, a former cricketer, the Chairman of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), and the 22^nd Prime Minister of Pakistan.

Imran Khan amassed huge support from his country because of his concept of anti-corruption “New Pakistan”.

His efforts for Pakistan are worth mentioning,

from winning the Cricket World Cup in 1992 to making Cancer hospitals in Pakistan and many other contributions.

Despite facing huge opposition he fought against the political status quo and won the general elections on 25^th July 2018.

Imran Khan, with 22 years of political struggle, earned a reputation as the world’s most powerful politician.