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Palme, Olof

(Encyclopedia)Palme, Olof (Sven Olof Joachim Palme) o͞oˈlôf pälˈmə [key], 1927–86, Swedish political leader, prime minister of Sweden (1969–76, 1982–86). Palme joined the Social Democratic party in 1952...

Borisov, Boiko

(Encyclopedia)Borisov, Boiko boiˈkō bōrēsˈŏf [key], 1959–, Bulgarian political leader, prime minister of Bulgaria (2009–13, 2014–16, 2017–). Trained as a firefighter, he joined the interior ministry i...

Bennett, Naftali

(Encyclopedia) Bennett, Naftali, 1972-, Israeli politician and prime minister (2021-), b. Haifa. The son of American immigrant parents, Naftali served in the Israeli ...

Vajpayee, Atal Bihari

(Encyclopedia)Vajpayee, Atal Bihari äˈtäl bihärˈē väjˈpīˌ [key], 1926–2018, Indian politician, prime minister of India (1996, 1998–2004). He began his career as a journalist, entering politics as an u...

Thompson, Sir John Sparrow David

(Encyclopedia)Thompson, Sir John Sparrow David, 1844–94, Canadian political leader, b. Nova Scotia. He was elected (1877) to the provincial assembly, was briefly provincial prime minister, and then was made a jus...

De Croo, Alexander

(Encyclopedia)De Croo, Alexander, 1975–, Belgian political leader. He worked for the Boston Consulting Group (1999–2006) and his own management consulting firm (2006–9) before entering politics. The son of Be...

Menderes, Adnan

(Encyclopedia)Menderes, Adnan ädnänˈmĕndĕrĕsˈ [key], 1899–1961, Turkish prime minister (1950–60). In Jan., 1946, he formed the Democratic party, the first legal opposition party in Turkey. When the party...

Geingob, Hage

(Encyclopedia)Geingob, Hage, 1941–, Namibian political leader. Geingob joined the South West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO) in the early 1960s. In exile from 1962, he became a member of SWAPO's central comm...

Liberal Democratic party, Japanese political party

(Encyclopedia)Liberal Democratic party (LDP), Japanese political party. It began as the conservative Liberal party, which, under Shigeru Yoshida, became the dominant political force in Japan following World War II....

Dehaene, Jean-Luc

(Encyclopedia)Dehaene, Jean-Luc, 1940–2014, Belgian political leader, b. Montepellier, France. A member of the Flemish Christian People's (after 2001, Christian Democratic) party, he held numerous administrative ...