World Leaders Background

Mexico - Enrique Pena Nieto

• approval ratings - 28%
• teflon candidate - trouble slides off

China - XI Jinping

• son of Revolutionary War veteran XI Zhongxum
• sent daughter to Harvard

India - Narendra Modi

• engaged to be married as child
• OBC - "socially + educationally backward class"
• keen debater

Russia - Vladimir Putin

• port of KGB ( security agency)
• ruthless, heartless

Germany - Angela Merkel 

• Phd in quantum chemistry 
• Chancellor since Nov 2005
• #1 Forbes list of most powerful women in the world
• #3 on most powerful people/ leaders in the world

UK - Theresa May

• Brexit vote
• took over for David Cameron 
• Queen Elizabeth reigns for 65 years

France - Emmanuel Macron

• no prior experience 
• wife is 24 years older than him
• youngest president in history of France

Japan - Shinzo Abe 

• married daughter of prime minister
• elected September of 2012
• head of imperial family + head of state
• symbol of the state + unity of people
• no powers related to government

Italy - Sergio Mattarella

• helped found the Christian Democracy
• brother was president of Sicily
• brother was killed by Sicilian Mafia