To be an effective politician
you gotta have a certain level of toughness and
Ability to make wise judgement calls sometimes with little to no time from thought to action
This of course is really magnified when you take it to the scale of leading a nation
There's a lot of power that comes with being a world leader and in this episode of FTD facts
I'm looking at the top five most powerful politicians in the world. Hey everyone. How's it going?
My name is Leroy Kenton and thanks for tuning in to another episode of FTD facts
And we're looking at some politicians here
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I'm gonna throw up for you today before I get into this episode is who was or is your favorite politician?
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Okay. So in this list, I'm counting down from 5 to 1. So let's go at number 5 we have Angela
Merkel Angela Merkel is a Chancellor of Germany since
2005 and also the leader of her own party the Christian Democratic Union or the
CDU with more than 10 years and three terms in office under her belt. Angela Merkel is one strong an
Indispensable leader in Europe. She has faced a ton of challenges throughout her tenure and she has come out on top
She's helped hold the eurozone together during the financial collapse and the girl Bo recession
She has stood up to Russian President Vladimir Putin and she also manages Europe's refugee
crisis and her command Germany stands above the rest of Europe with a strong economy and low unemployment rates and though she's not really
Universally liked Angela Merkel. She's proved a stabilizing force amid a lot of turmoil
I mean many people call Angela Merkel murca Valley after the famous political writer Nicolo Machiavelli
Due to her strategic decision-making and for having fundamentally transformed power relations in Europe and the European Union
Next up at number four. We have King Salman bin Abdulaziz
Al-saud and he's the current king of Saudi Arabia
He took the throne after the passing of his half-brother
He of the 12 surviving sons of the country's founding monarch will portably support a coup to oust
King Salman and replace him with his younger brother Prince ahmud bin
Abdul-aziz King Salman holds a lot of power and influence over the Middle East and his country's massive oil reserves
Even with oil at historically low prices Saudi Arabia the world's largest oil exporter
Continues to ramp up production to lower prices and to protect its global market share despite the negative effect
It has on the global oil economy at the number three position
We have the current prime minister of India, Narendra Modi
Narendra Modi's introducing initiatives to improve the lives of the 1.2 billion people who make up the world's largest
Democracy India some time ago
he had announced plans to reform and modernize a government and business sectors by implementing a uniform sales tax and
boosting foreign direct investment to India
Narendra Modi is the third most followed political leader on Twitter following Barack Obama and Donald Trump
And he's also pushing India to integrate with the digital world
He believes tech innovations holds a key to lifting India out of poverty in certain areas back in 2015
He had traveled to Silicon Valley in the United States seeking advice and a help from tech executives at companies like Google and Facebook
And since she's been doing that
We've really seen the effects because there's been a massive increase of users right here on YouTube from India
So whatever he's doing it's working moving on at number 2 is US President Donald Trump
Now the President of the United States is usually considered to be the most powerful person in the free world
Even if the person doesn't really have that much experience in politics at all
I don't really need to go into all of that in this episode by now
but you can just follow the news headlines about Donald Trump in the headlines speak for themselves and Donald Trump became the first
Billionaire president in the United States Donald Trump got his start working for his father Fred who developed low-cost housing in Brooklyn and Queens
The core of his fortune is tied up in buildings in and around midtown Manhattan where luxury real estate values
fallen recently now many people including Americans refer to Donald Trump as
Unpredictable and no doubt. He holds a lot of power. He's very influential
But now even Americans are questioning whether or not he's fit for the job as president
and finally
We reached a number-one spot the most powerful politician in the world is Vladimir Putin in 2015 their approval ratings for Vladimir Putin
Russia's president and former prime minister reached an all-time high of 89 point nine percent
After seizing Crimea in the wake of the Ukrainian revolution
Putin was determined to resurrect Russia as a superpower and an annual UN meeting in September of 2015
Putin had criticised Barack Obama asserting that the u.s. Is
Interventions have backfired in the Middle East and shortly after that Vladimir Putin
He launched the Russian air campaign to target Islamic forces in Syria and weakened rebellion against the country's
president these airstrike costed Russia two point five million dollars a day and it quickly
Escalated a lot of tensions with Western powers
They were like what is going on over there?
But despite all of that that happened it still doesn't stop Vladimir Putin from being the most powerful
Politician in the world today, so that's it for this episode of FTD facts
Now there are some other politicians that I wanted to include on this list
So some of the honorable mentions were imran khan who is a 22nd prime minister of pakistan
Then there is a Jinping the serving president of China
And of course the leader of North Korea Kim jong-un and all of these men wield a considerable amount of power and influence
They just didn't make it onto this list
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So much for watching. My name is Lera Kenton. Stay educated and I'll see you in another episode
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