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Christian Democratic chancellor of Germany since 2025 and former head of BlackRock Germany. He tightened migration and border policy, loosened the debt brake to rearm the country and keeps the firewall against the AfD; a Catholic, he is socially conservative.
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This position is 30.1 points from the median of the 449 figure profiles in this collection.
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This position is 8.1 points from this collection’s median.
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Right-wing current that unites free markets, traditional values, and an interventionist foreign policy, advocating the promotion of democracy and national interests through military force and global leadership.
Synthesis that unites free markets and economic freedoms with the appreciation of tradition, order, and institutions, defending prudent change and social stability within the framework of liberal democracy.
Right-wing current that combines free markets, free trade, and limited government with strong national identity, cultural assimilation, traditional and religious values, and a robust military.
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CommunalismAnarchist46.8 / 100Scores below are similarity indices out of 100, calculated from catalog coordinates. They do not establish historical influence or endorsement. How the comparison works ↗
Journalist and leader of the UDN party, Lacerda traded youthful communism for liberal anticommunism, helped topple Vargas and back the 1964 coup, governed Guanabara with major public works and favela removals and later founded the Broad Front.
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A southern state with strong agribusiness and European immigrant settlement, Paraná combines a thriving agricultural and industrial economy with a mostly conservative, economically liberal electorate.
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A city-state of the Italian Renaissance, Florence united banking and commercial capitalism, factional disputes among guilds and families such as the Medici, and a patronage that revolutionized the arts, letters, and political thought.
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