Thursday, November 7, 2013

Facts about leaders

Enrique Pena Pieto 

  • served as governor of the state of Mexico from 2005 to 2011
  • born in Atlacomulco, Mexico, a city 55 miles northwest from the capitol of Mexico
  • Reports that he fathered two children in extramarital affairs while his wife Monica raised the couple's 3 children
  • married to soap opera actor Angelica Rivera
XI Jinping (China is a communist state)
  • served as governor of Fujian fro 1999 to 2002 
  • served as governor of Zhejiang between 2002 and 2007 
  • first leader to have a Ph.D 
  • only received one vote against him in the election 
  • son of revolutionary veteran, one of the communist party's founding fathers
  • Married folk singer Peng Liyuan 
  • have a daughter who is attending Harvard University in the US 
Pranab Mukherjee
  • was a senior leader of the Indian National Congress and occupied several ministerial portfolios in the Government of India
  •  was also Leader of the House in the Rajya Sabha from 1980 to 1985.
  • rated as one of the best finance ministers of the world in 1984 and adjudged the pest parliamentarian in 1997
  • taught political science at the Vijayanagar College and worked as a journalist before entering politics 
Hamid Karazi
  •  chosen for a two-year term as Interim President during the 2002 loya
  •  After the 2004 presidential election, Karzai was declared winner and became President of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
  • knows many languages, Persian, Peshto, Hindi, French, and English
  • Warned the US that the Taliban were connected with al Qaeda and that there was a plot or an imminent attack on the US but his warnings went unheeded. 

Joachim Gauck (preident)

  • During the Peaceful Revolution, he was a co-founder of the New Forum opposition movement in East Germany
  • He was nominated as the candidate of the SPD and the Greens for President of Germany in the 2010 election, but narrowly lost to Christian Wulff
Angela Merkel (Chancellor of Germany) 
  • graduated from the University of Leizpig in 1978 with a degree in physics and physical chemistry; earned a Ph.D in quantum chemistry from the German Academy of sciences in Berlin in 1986
  • has been chancellor since November 2005
  • earned  the top spot on the FORBES list of most powerful women in the world for eight of the past 10 years 
Queen Elizabeth II
  •  Elizabeth was born in London and educated privately at home
  •  Her father was the second son of King George V and Queen Mary. Her mother was the youngest daughter of Scottish aristocrat Claude Bowes-Lyon, 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne. 
David Cameron (Prime Minister)
  • at the age of seven he was packed off to Heatherdown a high exclusive preparatory school
  • his first child who was disabled died in 2009
  • is the youngest prime minister in 200 years 
  • bikes to work everday
Francois Hollande
  • no previous experience in a national government position
  • the mother of his four children, Segolene Royal, with whom he shared a 30 year relationship
  • born in 1954 in the city of Rouen the an extreme right physician father and progressive social worker mother. 
Dilma Rousseff
  • has been divorced twice
  • opposed Brazil's military dictatorship of the 1960's and served three years in prison  where she was repeatedly tourchered 
  • underwent chemotherapy of lymphoma in 2009, and is now in remission 
  • she has a degree in economics
Nicolas Maduro Moros 
  • previously the Vice President of Venezuela and the Minister of Foreign Affairs under President Hugo Chávez.
  • before he took a charge in government he was a bus driver 
  • was introduced to Huge Chavez in 1992 and Chavez was imprisoned for an attempted coup and Maduro began campaigning for Chavez's release
Abdallah bin Abd al-Aziz Al Saud 

  • was one of many sons of Ibn Saud, the founder of modern Saudi Arabia
  • In 1961 he became mayor of Mecca
  • has fathered 22 children the youngest when he was 79 
  • he is worth about 21 billion dollars 
  • was appointed commander of the Saudi Arabian National Guard, a post he was still holding when he became king 
  • in 2011 he granted woman the right to vote and run in future municipal elections
  • his kingdom practices strict separations of the sexes (woman can't drive) 
Ali Hoseini-Khamenei (supreme leader) 
  • was the victim of an attempted assassination in June 1981 that paralyzed his right arm
  • served as the President of Iran from 1981 to 1989
  • in 1963 took part in street protests against the US. - backed Shah of Iran 

Ruhani (president)
  • has held several parliamentary posts, including deputy speaker and has also served on the Supreme National Security Council 
  • was just elected in June 2013 
  • has been openly critical of the outgoing president  saying Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's "careless, uncalculated and unstudied remarks" has cost the country dearly 
Shimon Peres (president)
  • won the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize
  • In 2005, he was voted the 11th-greatest Israeli of all time
  • born in Belarus, to escape the persecution of Jews there, the family fled to Palestine in 1934 
  • when Arab forces launched their attack on the new state of Israel in 1948, Peres was given the chief responsibility for securing military equipment for Israel from abroad 
  • organized Israels' nuclear program and is regarded as the father of Israel's atomic bomb
  • in 1994 he shared the Nobel Peace Prize with his own prime minister 
Netanyahu (prime minister) 
  • lived with his family in the US in the years 1956-1958 and again in 1963-1967
  • his brother Jonathan was killed, in July 197, in the course of the Entebbe Operation 

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