- Nouri Al-Maliki
Nouri Kamel Mohammed Hassan al-Maliki (Arabic: نوري كامل المالكي, transliterated "Nūrī Kāmil al-Mālikī"; born c. 1950), also known as Jawad al-Maliki, is the State Prime Minister of Iraq. He is a Shi'a Muslim, and is secretary-general of the Islamic Dawa Party. Al-Maliki and his government succeeded the Iraqi Transitional Government. His 37-member Cabinet was approved by the National Assembly and sworn in on May 20, 2006.
- Kim Young-Sam
Kim Young-sam (born December 20, 1927 in Geoje, South Gyeongsang) was the President of the South Korea from February 25, 1993 to February 25, 1998. Kim graduated from Seoul National University in 1952 with a BA in philosophy, and served in the South Korean armed forces during the Korean War. In 1954 he was elected to the National Assembly and served nine terms representing districts in Geoje and Busan.
- Makhdoom Amin Fahim
Makhdoom Amin Fahim is the President of Pakistan Peoples Party Parliamentarians in the lower house of the Parliament of Pakistan, the National Assembly. As President of the party, he is the leader of he party with the second highest number of seats hence being one of the leaders of opposition.
- Park Geun-Hye
Park Geun-hye (born February 2, 1952) is a South Korean politician. She is a member of the National Assembly and was the head of the conservative Grand National Party. She is now in her third parliamentary term, having first been elected in 1998, and is widely expected to be her party's nominee to succeed presidential incumbent Roh Moo-hyun. Her father was Park Chung Hee, the dictator / president of South Korea from 1961 to 1979.
- Ségolène Royal
Marie-Ségolène Royal, known as, is a French politician. She is the president of the Poitou-Charentes region, a former member of the National Assembly and a prominent member of the Socialist Party. On 16 November 2006, Socialist Party members elected her as their candidate for the 2007 French presidential election. In the first round of voting in that election, on April 22, 2007, …
- Rhodri Glyn Thomas
Rhodri Glyn Thomas AM (born 1953, Wrexham, Denbighshire, North Wales) is a Welsh politician. He has been the Plaid Cymru National Assembly for Wales Member for Carmarthen East and Dinefwr since 1999.
- Tony Leon
Anthony James Leon (born December 15, 1956) is a South African politician and the former leader of the Democratic Alliance, South Africa's main opposition party and former leader of the opposition.
- Lee Hae Chan
Lee Hae Chan (born July 10, 1952) is a former Prime Minister of South Korea. He was nominated by president Roh Moo-hyun on June 8, 2004, confirmed by the National Assembly on June 29, and took office on June 30. He is a member of the liberal Uri Party, and was elected five times for the National Assembly. On March 14, 2006, he resigned amidst the so called golf game scandal. He also served as the minister of education under former president Kim Dae-jung from 1998 to 1999, …
- Cilia Flores
Cilia Flores, a lawyer by training, is (as of 2007) the president (speaker) of the National Assembly of Venezuela. She is married to Foreign Minister Nicolás Maduro, who also presided over the National Assembly during the previous parliamentary session. On 10 January 2007, Flores swore President Hugo Chávez into office.
- Kim Jong-Pil
Kim Jong-pil (born January 7, 1926) is a South Korean politician and founder of the Korean Central Intelligence Agency (the KCIA, now the National Intelligence Service), who served as Prime Minister twice, from 1971-1975 and from 1998-2000. Kim Jong-pil was born in Buyeo County, South Chungcheong province, and graduated from the Korean Military Academy in 1949 (KMA class No. 8).
- Michel Bissonnet
Michel Bissonnet, MNA (born March 28 1942 in Montreal, Quebec) is the President of the National Assembly (Speaker of the House) of the Province of Quebec, Canada. He was elected as a member of the Quebec Liberal Party in Jeanne-Mance—Viger. Bissonnet obtained a license in law at Université de Montréal in 1976 and was admitted to the Barreau du Québec the following year.
- Nabih Berri
Nabih Berri (born January 28, 1938) is the speaker of the Lebanese Parliament of Lebanon. He heads the mostly Shi'a Amal Party. He was born in Sierra Leone to Lebanese parents. He went to school in Tebnine and Ain Ebel in southern Lebanon and later studied at the Makassed and the Ecole de la Sagesse in Beirut. He obtained a Law degree in 1963 from the Lebanese University, where he had served as the student body president.
- Kwon Young-Ghil
Kwon Young-ghil(1941 Sancheong County, Gyeongsangnam-do -) is a South Korean politician. He has a bachelor's degree in sericulture from Seoul National University(1969). Before turning to politics, he led several labour organizations including Korean Federation of Press Unions and Korean Confederation of Trade Unions. He was the President of left-wing Democratic Labour Party, and is currently a member of the National Assembly.
- Eduardo Montealegre
Eduardo Montealegre (born in Managua, May 9, 1955) is a Nicaraguan politician. He ran for president in the 2006 general election as the candidate of the Nicaraguan Liberal Alliance (ALN-PC) a spin-off of the Constitutional Liberal Party (PLC) in alliance with other liberal parties and the Conservative Party. He finished in second place after Daniel Ortega, receiving 28.3% of the vote. Montealegre received an Sc.
- Adolphe Thiers
Louis Adolphe Thiers (Marseille, April 16, 1797-September 3 1877) was a French politician and historian. Thiers was a prime minister under King Louis-Philippe of France. Following the overthrow of the Second Empire he again came to prominence as the French leader who suppressed the revolutionary Paris Commune of 1871. From 1871 to 1873 he served initially as "Head of State" (effectively a provisional President of France), then provisional President.
- Kim Moon-Soo
Kim Moon-soo (born August, 1951) is a South Korean politician, the current governor of Gyeonggi-do. He is a member of the Grand National Party and has been harshly critical of the Roh Moo-hyun administration's stance on human rights in North Korea; in his third term in the National Assembly he submitted the North Korean Human Rights Bill Enactment on the 60th anniversary of Korean liberation from Japan.
- Oh Se-Hoon
Oh Se-hoon is the current mayor of South Korean capital, Seoul. He is a member of the conservative Grand National Party. He is also a lawyer. He graduated from Daeil High School and majored in law at Korea University. He became a congressman in 2000 and is a representative at the National Assembly
- Wayne David
Wayne David (born July 1, 1957) is a British politician. He is the Labour Member of Parliament for Caerphilly.
- Philippe Couillard
Philippe Couillard M.D., (born June 26, 1957 in Montreal) is a politician, university professor, and neurosurgeon in Quebec, Canada. He currently serves as the Quebec Minister for Health and Social Services in the government of Jean Charest. Couillard holds a medical degree and a degree in neurosurgery from the Université de Montréal.
- Artur Baghdasarian
Artur Baghdasarian (born November 8, 1968 in Yerevan, Armenia) is an Armenian politician and former Chairman of the National Assembly of Armenia. He is the leader of the opposition Rule of Law party. He is married and has two children.
- Chris Ngige
Dr. Chris Nwabueze Ngige (born 8 August 1952) was governor of Anambra State in Nigeria from 29 May 2003 to 17 March 2006. He is a member of the ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP). A medical doctor by profession, Ngige graduated from the University of Nigeria-Nsukka in 1979. He immediately went into the civil service, serving at the National Assembly and State House clinics at different times. He retired in 1998 as a Deputy Director in the Federal Ministry of Health.
- Julio Borges
Julio Andrés Borges Junyent is a Venezuelan politician. He was a lawyer who also had a TV court show called "Justicia Para Todos" on Radio Caracas Televisión before being elected a member of the National Assembly, representing Primero Justicia and Miranda State. Borges ran for president in the primaries for the Venezuelan presidential elections of 2006, but on August 9, 2006 dropped out to support Manuel Rosales, the current governor of the Zulia State
- Michèle Alliot-Marie
Michèle Jeanne Honorine Alliot-Marie is the French Minister of the Interior and Overseas territories, and the first woman to lead a major French political party. She is the first woman to become Minister of the Interior and Overseas territories. She was minister of defence in Jacques Chirac's cabinet. Born in Villeneuve-le-Roi in the Val-de-Marne, her father was Bernard Marie, the Mayor of Biarritz.
- Jean-Louis Debré
Jean-Louis Debré is a conservative French politician. On February 23, 2007, he was appointed president of the Constitutional Council of France by president Jacques Chirac, replacing Pierre Mazeaud. The son of former prime minister Michel Debré and the brother of politician Bernard Debré, he was member of the Neo-Gaullist party Rally for the Republic (RPR) then of the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP). Debré is known for his loyalty to Jacques Chirac.
- Nahas Angula
Nahas Gideon Angula (born August 22 1943) is the current Prime Minister of Namibia. He entered into office on March 21 2005, when his appointment was announced by new president Hifikepunye Pohamba during the latter's inauguration. A member of the National Assembly since 1990, Angula was minister of education, sport, and culture from 1990 to 1995 and minister of higher education from 1995 until 2005.
- Liaqat Baloch
Liaqat Baloch (Urdu: لیاقت بلوچ is a political leader in Pakistan. He is originally from Muzaffargarh, a remote area of southern Punjab. He played an active role in student politics in the late 1970s at the University of the Punjab where he was twice elected president of the Islami Jamiat-e-Talaba. He holds an MSc (Mass Communicationand LLB degree from the University of the Punjab. He was a member of the Pakistani parliament in 1985 and 1991.
- Nguyễn Tấn Dũng
Nguyễn Tấn Dũng is the prime minister of Vietnam. He was confirmed by the National Assembly on June 27, 2006, having been nominated by his predecessor, Phan Văn Khải, who retired from office. Mr.Dũng was born in the southern province of Ca Mau and graduated with a bachelor's degree in law. Mr.Dũng previously served as First Deputy Prime Minister from September 29, 1997. He was admitted to the Communist Party of Vietnam on June 10, 1967, …
- Marie-George Buffet
Marie-George Buffet (born May 7 1949 in Sceaux, Hauts-de-Seine) is a French politician, currently the head of the French Communist Party (PCF). She joined the Party in 1969, and was the Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports from June 4 1997 to May 5 2002. Ms. Buffet was re-elected on June 16, 2002 to another five-year term in the National Assembly, as a representative of Seine-Saint-Denis. Buffet was elected in 2001 as National Secretary of the Party, succeeding Robert Hue, …
- Pierre Lellouche
Pierre Lellouche (May 3, 1951, Tunis, Tunisia) is a French conservative politician, member of the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) party. He was also the president of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly since November 2004 until 17 November 2006. He was elected deputy of Sarcelles in 1993, and retained his seat at the National Assembly until 2002. He has been director of the Nuclear Threat Initiative and a member of the Trilateral Commission.
- Mahamane Ousmane
Mahamane Ousmane (born 20 January 1950) is a Nigerien political figure. He was the first democratically elected president of Niger, serving from 16 April 1993 until his ouster in a military coup d'état on 27 January 1996. He has continued to run for president in each election since his ouster, and he has been president of the country's National Assembly since December 1999. He is also the head of the Democratic and Social Convention-Rahama (CDS) party.
- Christiane Taubira
Christiane Taubira is a French politician. President of her party Walwari, she has served as a French deputy at the National Assembly since 1993, and was re-elected in 1997. Non-affiliated in 1993, she then voted for the investiture of the conservative Edouard Balladur cabinet in 1993. In 1994, she became a Member of the European Parliament (MEP), being the fourth on the "Énergie Radicale" list led by Bernard Tapie.
- Madhav Kumar Nepal
Madhav Kumar Nepal (born 1953) is a Nepalese politician; he is the general secretary of Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist). He was the deputy prime minister in the Nepalese government during the CPN(UML) minority government as well as the leader of the opposition in the National Assembly. He has argued for the Nepal Civil War to be solved through talks and does not believe that mobilization of the army was the solution.
- Jon Shortridge
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- Anton Rop
Anton Rop (born 27 December, 1960) is a Slovenian politician. He is currently a member of the National Assembly of Slovenia. He was the fourth Prime Minister of Slovenia, from 2002 to 2004. Until 2005 he was also the president of the Liberal Democratic Party (Liberalna Demokracija Slovenije - LDS), the legal successor of the Slovenian Association of Socialist Youth. On March 20, 2007, he left the party and joined the Social Democrats. Rop was born in Ljubljana.
- 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, …
- Ghulam Mustafa Jatoi
Ghulam Mustafa Jatoi (Urdu: غلام مصطفیٰ جتوئی is a Pakistani politician, and was Prime Minister of Pakistan for 3 months, from August 6, 1990 to November 6, 1990.
- Stepan Demirchyan
Stepan Demirchyan, born June 7, 1959 Yerevan, is an Armenian politician and son of the Communist-era Armenian leader Karen Demirchyan. Stepan Demirchyan received his degree from Yerevan Polytechnic Institute in 1981. He is an engineer-electrician and Technical Sciences PhD. From 1981-1986 he worked first as a skilled worker and later senior skilled worker, supervisor-probationer, …
- Abdul Kadir
Abdul Kadir (born circa 1952) is a former member of Guyana's parliament, the National Assembly, and was the mayor of Guyana's second-largest city, Linden, from 1994 to 1996. A chemical engineer by trade, he served in the National Assembly from 2001 to 2006 as a member of the main opposition party, the People's National Congress Reform. Born Michael Seaforth in Buxton, Guyana, the son of Victor Seaforth, Kadir converted to Islam in 1974 and changed his name.
- Robert Hue
Robert Hue, in full Robert Georges Auguste Hue (born October 19 1946, Cormeilles-en-Parisis in Val-d'Oise) is a French politician. He is a former leader of French Communist Party (PCF) and was a candidate in the presidential election of 1995, in which he received 8.7 % of the vote, and that of 2002, which won him only 3.37%. He lost his seat in the National Assembly of the French Parliament in February 2003, but he was elected to the French Senate in 2004.
- Amine Gemayel
Sheikh Amine Pierre Gemayel was President of Lebanon from 1982 to 1988. Born in the Lebanese village of Bikfaya, Amine Gemayel is the son of Pierre Gemayel, founder of the Kataeb Party. Gemayel was elected to the presidency by the National Assembly on September 21, 1982, to succeed his brother Bachir Gemayel who had been elected the previous month but had been assassinated before taking office.