Who's the Best World Leader Today?

[Jaicee]

Wman1996 said:

I have to say Claudia Sheinbaum.
She is trying to improve a semi-free nation with a lot of turmoil like her predecessor (AMLO) did. She's center-left and handling a fascist like Donald Trump quite well.
I don't know enough about some of the most recent prime ministers of New Zealand, but Jacinda Arden (PM from 2017-2023) was probably the best world leader in those 6 years.
The best world leaders have to be left-leaning or center-left in my eyes. Granted, the Overton window varies in countries.
Both of my two choices are women under 65 (and Jacinda was far under 65), but being a woman doesn't necessarily guarantee you'll be a better leader just like men aren't inherently better leaders.

There aren't a lot of world leaders I have an especially high opinion of, honestly, even amongst the more left wing examples. North Korea's Kim Jong Un, Venezuela's Nicholas Maduro, Slovakia's Robert Fico, and Cuba's latest dictator, Miguel Diaz-Canel are all examples of current far left type leaders I have little to no respect for, personally (little in the case of Diaz-Canel and none in the other three cases) that come to mind just off the top of my head. I'm not a big fan of some of the more business-oriented liberal ones out there either, like the union-busting, pension-slashing French President, former investment banker, and transparently aspiring tyrant (or "Jupiterian", as he calls it) in his own right Emmanuel Macron, for example. I feel like the world overall is headed in a bad direction.

I demand an activist government that secures the nation's sovereignty and borders, establishes law and order, respects the rule of law and works to expand democracy rather than limit it, clearly expands public welfare and ownership, and yes respects people's basic freedoms while working toward equal justice. Those are my political values. I feel that Sheinbaum is the best head-of-state representative of those values out there today.