- Cristina Fernández de Kirchner
Cristina Elisabeth Fernández is a politician from La Plata, capital of the province of Buenos Aires, Argentina. She is a former Senator for Buenos Aires Province, former First Lady and current Argentine president. She is Argentina's first elected woman president but not the first to run the country.
- Edouard Drumont
Édouard Adolphe Drumont was a French journalist and writer, founder in 1889 of the Antisemitic League of France. He was born at Paris. He was at first in the government service, but later became a contributor to the press and was the author of a number of miscellaneous works, of which "Mon vieux Paris" (1879) was crowned by the Academy.
- Roberto Madrazo
Roberto Madrazo Pintado is a Mexican politician affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). He was the candidate of the alliance between his party and the Ecologist Green Party of Mexico (PVEM) in the 2006 Mexican presidential election. Madrazo was born in Villahermosa, Tabasco to Carlos A. Madrazo and Graciela Pintado Jiménez. His father, was a reformist politician at a time when the PRI was the only viable party.
- Fernando de la Rúa
Fernando de la Rúa Bruno is an Argentine politician. He was president of the country from December 10 1999 to December 21 2001 for the Alliance for Work, Justice and Education (a political alliance of the Radical Civic Union and Frepaso). Born in Córdoba City, he attended the local Military Lyceum before entering the National University of Córdoba, from which he obtained his law degree. De la Rúa became involved in politics at a young age.
- Fausto Bertinotti
Fausto Bertinotti (born on 22 March 1940) is an Italian politician and former leader of the Partito della Rifondazione Comunista, now replaced by Franco Giordano. On April 29, 2006, after center-left coalition's victory in the Italian general election, he was chosen by the new parliament as President of the Chamber of Deputies (one of the Italian Parliament houses).
- Bogdan Olteanu
Bogdan Olteanu (born 29 October 1971) is a Romanian politician and lawyer, currently the president of the Chamber of Deputies, the lower house of the Romanian Parliament. Olteanu has been a member of the National Liberal Party since 1991, and held various positions in that party. He was elected as deputy for Bucharest in the 2004 elections. In 2005 he was appointed Delegate Minister for Parliamentary Affairs in the Government of Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu.
- Marco Follini
Marco Follini (born on 26 September 1954) is an Italian centre-wing politician. Follini was born in Rome. He was National Secretary of the Democrats' Centre Union party until October 15 2005. He was also Vice-Prime Minister of Berlusconi's second government, taking office up to April 2005. A former member of the Christian Democracy party, he then joined the UDC, and became national party leader in 2002, succeeding Pierferdinando Casini, …
- Rosy Bindi
Maria Rosaria Bindi, best known as Rosy Bindi (born february 12, 1951) is an Italian politician, currently a member of the centre party "Margherita". Born in Sinalunga (Tuscany), she graduated in Political science. She was next to the jurist Vittorio Bachelet when he was assainated by the Red Brigades in 1980. She held the position of vice-president of Azione Cattolica, the most popular Italian Catholic lay association, from 1984 to 1989.
- Giulio Andreotti
Giulio Andreotti (born 14 January 1919 in Rome) is an Italian politician who served seven times as Prime Minister of Italy. He also served as Foreign Minister of Italy between 1983 and 1989. Andreotti has sat in Parliament without interruption since 1946, when he was elected to the Constituent Assembly. He was almost continuously re-elected to the Chamber of Deputies, until President Francesco Cossiga appointed him Senator for life in 1991.
- Jean Casimir-Perier
Jean Paul Pierre Casimir-Perier was a French politician, fifth president of the French Third Republic. He was born in Paris, the son of Auguste Casimir-Perier and the grandson of Casimir Pierre Perier, premier of Louis Philippe. He entered public life as secretary to his father, who was minister of the interior under the presidency of Thiers. In 1874 he was elected general councillor of the Aube "département", …
- Vladimir Luxuria
Vladimir Luxuria (born Wladimiro Guadagno in Foggia, Apulia June 24, 1965), is an Italian actress, television personality, and politician. She is currently a Communist member of the Italian parliament, belonging to Romano Prodi's L'Unione coalition. She is the first openly transgender member of Parliament in Europe, and the world's second openly transgender MP after New Zealander Georgina Beyer.
- Luigi Facta
Luigi Facta (November 16, 1861 - November 5, 1930) was an Italian politician, journalist and last Prime Minister of Italy before the dictatorship of Benito Mussolini. Facta was born in Pinerolo, Piedmont, Italy. He studied law and later became a journalist. He entered politics in 1892 when he was elected to the chamber of deputies for Pinerolo, a seat which he held for 30 years.
- Auguste Casimir-Perier
Auguste Victor Laurent Casimir-Perier, was a French diplomat. He was the son of Casimir Pierre Perier and the father of President Jean Casimir-Perier. He entered the diplomatic service, being attached successively to the London, Brussels and St Petersburg embassies and in 1843 became minister plenipotentiary at Hanover. In 1846 he resigned from the service to enter the legislature as deputy for the "département" of Seine, …
- Christine Doerner
Christine Doerner (born 18 July 1952) is a Luxembourgian politician. She has been a member of the Chamber of Deputies since the 2004 election, and has also sat as a member of the communal council of Bettembourg since 2000. She has been a member of the Christian Social People's Party since 1974.
- Benigno Zaccagnini
Benigno Zaccagnini (April 17 1912 - november 5 1989) was an Italian politician and physician. Born in Faenza, he graduated in Pediatrics in 1937. During World War II he acted as partisan, collaborating with Arrigo Boldrini in the liberation of Romagna. Zaccagnini was among the founders of the Democrazia Cristiana (Italian Christian Democracy party), and was elected at the Constituent Assembly (1946) and the Chamber of Deputies (1948) of the new-born Italian Republic.
- Massimo D'Alema
Massimo D'Alema (born April 20, 1949) is an Italian politician, currently Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Vice President of the Council of Ministers of Italy. He is also a journalist, a former national secretary of the PDS, Partito Democratico della Sinistra, and he was the first President of the Council of Ministers coming from Italian Communist Party.
- Adrian Năstase
Adrian Năstase is a Romanian politician who was the Prime Minister of Romania from December 2000 to December 2004. He competed as the Social Democratic Party (PSD) candidate in the 2004 presidential election, but was defeated by centre-right Justice and Truth (DA) Alliance candidate Traian Băsescu. He was the President of the Chamber of Deputies from December 21 2004 until 15 March 2006, when he resigned due to corruption charges.
- Paul-Henri-Benjamin D'Estournelles de Constant
Paul-Henri-Benjamin Baluet d'Estournelles, baron de Constant de Rébecque, was a French diplomat and politician, advocate of international arbitration and winner of the 1909 Nobel Prize for Peace. He was born at La Flèche (Sarthe) in the Loire valley to an old aristocratic family which traced its genealogy back to the Crusades; the renowned Revolution-era writer and politician Benjamin Constant was his great-uncle.
- Fernando Gabeira
Fernando Paulo Nagle Gabeira is a Brazilian politician, author and journalist. He has been a federal deputy from the State of Rio de Janeiro since 1995. He is best known for his book "O que é isso, companheiro?" (literally "What is that, comrade?" and colloquially "What are you doing, comrade?"). Written in 1979, the book is about the armed resistance to the Military Dictatorship in Brazil, …
- Jean Tiberi
Jean Tiberi is a French politician who was mayor of Paris from May 22, 1995 to March 24, 2001. As of 2004, he is now mayor of the 5th arrondissement of Paris and deputy to the French National Assembly. Jean Tiberi and his wife Xavière Tiberi were involved in some corruption scandals in the Paris region in which Mr Tiberi was accused of vote-rigging.
- Carlos Álvarez
Carlos Alberto "Chacho" Álvarez is an Argentine politician; he was Vice-President of Argentina during part of President Fernando de la Rúa's mandate, and currently heads the Mercosur Secretariat. Álvarez finished his degree in history at Buenos Aires University. He was an assessor at the Regional Economies Commission of the National Senate from 1983 to 1989. That year he was elected as National Deputy for the Justicialist Party, …
- Lydia Mutsch
Lydia Mutsch is a Luxembourgian politician. Lydia Mutsch studied in Göttingen. She is a member of the national legislature, the Chamber of Deputies. Since 2000, she has been the Mayor of Esch-sur-Alzette. She is a member of the Luxembourg Socialist Workers' Party.
- Serge Dassault
Serge Dassault is a French entrepreneur and conservative politician. According to "Forbes" magazine, as of 2006 he was the 56th richest person in the world. Dassault is the son of Marcel Dassault, from whom he inherited the Dassault Group. Since the elder Dassault's death, he has continued developing the company, with the help of current CEO Charles Edelstenne. Serge Dassault studied at the École polytechnique and Supaéro.
- Adolfo Aguilar Zínser
Adolfo Aguilar Zínser was a Mexican scholar, diplomat and politician who served as a National Security Advisor to President Vicente Fox and as a UN Security Council Ambassador in the midst of the US invasion of Iraq. Born in Mexico City into an upper-class family Aguilar Zínser was the son of Adolfo Aguilar y Quevedo a criminal lawyer and Carmen Zínser, a philanthropist.
- Joseph Bech
Joseph Bech was a Luxembourgian politician. He was the fifteenth Prime Minister of Luxembourg, serving for eleven years, from 16 July 1926 until 5 November 1937. He returned to the position after the Second World War, becoming the seventeenth Prime Minister, serving for another four years, from 29 December 1953 until 29 March 1958. Bech studied Law at Freiburg and Paris, before qualifying as a lawyer in 1914.
- Jules Bara
Jules Bara was a Belgian statesman an liberal politician. He was born at Tournai and pursued the study of law in his native town, showing remarkable intellectual gifts and a fine power of oratory. Shortly after he had begun the practice of his profession he was summoned to be professor of law at the Université Libre de Bruxelles and presently established his reputation by a treatise on the relations of church and state, …
- Colette Flesch
Colette Flesch (born 16 April 1937) is a Luxembourgian politician anf former fencer. As a fencer she participated in the 1960, 1964 and 1968 Summer Olympics. She has served in numerous political capacities, both in government and within the Democratic Party and the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party. Besides these positions, she has also sat as a member of the Chamber of Deputies and as a member of the European Parliament
- Leonel Godoy
Leonel Godoy Rangel is a Mexican lawyer and politician. He is a former president of the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD). Godoy Rangel began his political career in his native Michoacán serving in various positions during the governorship of Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas. He served in the Chamber of Deputies from 1994 to 1997. In 1997 he joined the cabinet of Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas's government in the Federal District.
- Luis Felipe Bravo Mena
Luis Felipe Bravo Mena is a Mexican politician. He is a former president of the National Action Party (PAN) and current Mexican ambassador to the Vatican City. Bravo Mena is the son of Luis Felipe Bravo García, a sales agent, and Luz María Mena Montoya. He graduated with a bachelor's degree in law from the University of Guanajuato and specialized in social and political philosophy at the Pan-American University.
- Francisco Barrio
Francisco Javier Barrio Terrazas (b. November 25, 1950) is a Mexican politician affiliated to the National Action Party (PAN). He is a former governor of Chihuahua and former secretary in the cabinet of President Vicente Fox. Francisco Barrio was born in Satevo, Chihuahua and received a bachelor's degree in accounting and an MBA from the Autonomous University of Chihuahua.
- Daniel Salamanca Urey
Daniel Salamanca Urey was president of Bolivia from March 5, 1931 until he was overthrown in a "coup d'etat" on November 27, 1934, during the country's disastrous Chaco War with Paraguay. Born in Cochabamba, Salamanca studied law, before being elected to Bolivia's Chamber of Deputies in 1899 for the Liberal Party. Two years later, President José Manuel Pando appointed him Finance Minister.
- Enrique Jackson
Enrique Jackson Ramírez is a Mexican politician affiliated to the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). Jackson was born in Los Mochis, Sinaloa. He received a bachelor's degree in Public Administration from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and started a career in the federal bureaucracy. From mid-1980s to mid-1990s, before the introduction of direct elections of local officials in the Mexican Federal District, …
- Aldo Aniasi
Aldo Aniasi (31 May 1921 - 27 August 2005) was an Italian politician. Aniasi was born in Palmanova, in Friuli. During the Fascist regime and the Italian Social Republic, he participated to the Italian resistance movement, with the name of "Iso Danali", an anagram of his true name. After World War II, he entered the Italian political scene as a member of the Italian Socialist Party (PSI). Aniasi was elected in the city council of Milan, …
- Nicolás Maduro
Nicolás Maduro Moros is a Venezuelan politician who was appointed foreign minister by President Hugo Chávez on 9 August 2006. Maduro emerged as a student leader and then as a trade-unionist representing the workers of the Caracas Metro system in the 1970s and 1980s. He is one of the founders of the Fifth Republic Movement (MVR). Maduro was elected on the MVR ticket to the Chamber of Deputies in 1998, to the National Constituent Assembly in 1999, …
- Ricardo Monreal
Ricardo Monreal Ávila is a Mexican politician affiliated to the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD). He is a former senator, a former Governor of Zacatecas and a former member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) being closely identified during his tenure in that party with former president Carlos Salinas de Gortari.
- Antonin Proust
Antonin Proust (15 March 1832 - 20 March 1905) was a French journalist and politician. Antonin Proust was born at Niort. In 1864 he founded an anti-imperial journal, "La Semaine hebdomadaire" which appeared in Brussels. He was war correspondent for "Le Temps" in the early days of the Franco-German War, but after Sedan he returned to Paris, where he became secretary to Gambetta and superintended the refugees in Paris.
- Giancarlo Pagliarini
Giancarlo Pagliarini (Milan, April 23 1942) is an Italian politician. He is a member of the Lega Nord. He was elected to the Italian Senate in 1992 and re-elected in 1994, then elected to the Chamber of Deputies in 1996 and in 2001. He was minister of the Budget in Silvio Berlusconi's first government in 1994 and the League's Group Chairman in the Chamber of Deputies from 1999 to 2001.
- Jean-Louis Schiltz
Jean-Louis Schiltz (born 14 August 1964 in Luxembourg City) is Luxembourgian politician for the Christian Social People's Party (CSV). Schiltz studied law in Luxembourg and Paris, and became a lawyer in 1989. He was first elected to the Chamber of Deputies in 2004 and has been a minister in Jean-Claude Juncker's government since then. Since he has served in his current capacity as Minister for Cooperation and Humanitarian Affairs and Minister delegate for communications.
- Ion G. Duca
Ion G. Duca was prime minister of Romania from November 14 to December 30, 1933, when he was assassinated for his efforts to suppress the fascist Iron Guard movement. Born in Bucharest, he entered Romania's Chamber of Deputies for the National Liberal Party in 1907 and served in the cabinet from 1914. As part of a group of a group of professors, physicians, soldiers, etc., he helped bring Scouting to Romania ("see also Cercetaşii României").
- Diego Fernández de Cevallos
Diego Fernández de Cevallos Ramos is a Mexican politician affiliated to the conservative National Action Party (PAN). He is a former presidential candidate, federal deputy and senator. Fernández de Cevallos is the son of José Fernández de Cevallos Martínez and Beatriz Ramos Íñigo. He received a bachelor's degree in law from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and took several courses in economics at the Ibero-American University, …