Leaders

Mexico:
Leader: Enrique Pena Nieto

• has not yet taken his role as president but will be taking office in December
• he was governor of Mexico for six years before running for president 
• people cheat on ballots when voting for him, people's lives are threatened unless they vote for him

China
Leader: Hu Jintao

• became a local leader of the Young Communist Youth League, in 1982 he turned thirty nine and became the youngest member of the central committee
• he was made vice president at the age of fifty six in 1998- he was the youngest person in modern history to have this job- after, he was made vice chairman of china's state central military commission.
• head of the entire communist party of China
• they don't vote-hu jintao is not going to be president anymore 

India
Leader: President Pranab Mukherjee

• President of the unit of congress since 1985 but resigned in July, 2010
• 1969 was when he got a break to be in politics from prime minister Indira Gandhi - he helped Pranab get elected into the upper house in India's parliament.

Afghanistan
leader: Hamid Karzai

• Chosen for a two year term as Interim president during the 2002 grand assembly
• In 2004 he was elected president and he won a second five year term in 2009
• before he ran this country the Taliban ran it 

Iran:
Leader: Mahmud

• He was an engineer and a teacher from a very poor background, he joined the office for strengthening unity after the Islamic revolution.
• when he ran for president, his campaign received 62% of the election runoff votes and he became president- this was in 2005, his second term ends on august third 2013

Israel:
Leader:   prime minister Binyamin netanyahu

• He formed a coalition government 
• The first Israeli prime minister born in Israel after the founding of the state

Germany:
Leader: Angela Merkel

• She is the First woman to become a chancellor of Germany
• She is seen to play a very crucial role in managing the financial crisis (referred to as the decider) she also plays a major role in the problems that concern health care reform and future energy development 

United Kingdom:
Leader: David Cameron

• He earned his first honors degree at oxford- philosophy, politics and economics
• when he was little he got an amazing education
• At age 43 he became the youngest British prime minister  since earl of Liverpool 198 years later
• the queen speaks fluent french, she has a lot of awards, she has been in power for the longest time- she is just a figurehead 

France:

Leader: Francois Hollande

• On the 16th of October he won the socialist and Radical left party nomination with more than 56% of the votes
• On May sixth he defeated his opponent in the second runoff becoming the president of France

Brazil:

Leader: Dilma Rousseff 

• First woman to hold office, she was also the first woman to become chief of staff to the president of Brazil
• She was elected in a runoff on October 31, 2010- She is the first female elected president of Brazil, she is also the first economist to hold office

Venezuela:

Leader: President Hugo Chavez

• he has held the position of president since 1999
• He has focused on implementing socialist reforms in his country as a part of his project which is called Bolivarian Revolution 

 Saudi Arabia:

Leader: king and prime minister abdullah bin abdulaziz al saud

• he became king on August 1, 2005 on account of his half brother king Fahd's death
• he held important political positions during his life, one of them being that he was the mayor of Mecca as a young man, he is the sixth king of Saudi Arabia