Wednesday, November 6, 2013

Important Facts

Mexican President Enrique PENA NIETO

1.) Peña Nieto's election marks the return to power of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). The PRI controlled the Mexican presidency for more than 70 years, until the 2000 election.
2.) He is the 57th president of Mexico.
3.) He was the eldest of four siblings in a middle-class family; his father, Gilberto Enrique Peña del Mazo, was an engineer for the electric company and his mother, Maria del Socorro Nieto, a schoolteacher.
4.) Reports that he fathered two children in extramarital affairs while his wife Monica raised the couple’s 3 children, plus the investigation into the sudden death of his wife at home in 2007, have prompted many to call him the Teflon candidate because trouble seems to slide off him.
 http://www.enriquepenanieto.com/

Chinese President Xi Jinping

1.) He has been the 6th Chairman of the CPG  central military commission since 2012.
2.)  He is also the ex officio chairman of the CPC Politburo Standing Committee.
3.) Xi Jinping is the son of revolutionary veteran Xi Zhongxun, one of the Communist Party's founding fathers.
4.) His daughter goes to Harvard.
5.) Wife is a folk singer and an army general.
http://chinadigitaltimes.net/china/xi-jinping/

Indian President Pranab MUKHERJEE

1.) He is the 13th and current President of India.
2.) Mukherjee was a senior leader of the Indian National Congress and occupied several ministerial portfolios in the Government of India.
3.) He taught Political Science at the Vidiyanagar College, and worked as a journalist before entering politics.
4.) Created his own political party.
http://presidentofindia.nic.in/


Afghanistan President Hamid KARZAI

1.) He is the 12th and current President of Afghanistan, taking office on 22 December 2001.
2.) He became a dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001.
3.) He emerged as a resistance leader under Taliban rule and worked to undermine the regime.
4.) He is well versed in several languages, including his native Peshto, Persian, Hindi, French and English.http://president.gov.af/ps

German President Joachim GAUCK/Angela MERKEL

1.) He is the President of Germany, serving since March 2012.
2.) He came to prominence as an anti-communist civil rights activist in East Germany.
3.) Merkel has earned the top spot on the FORBES list of Most Powerful Woman in the world for eight of the past ten years.
4.) Has been Chancellor since November 2005.
http://www.bundespraesident.de/EN/Federal-President/federal-president-node.html

Iranian Supreme Leader KHAMENEI and President RUHANI

1.) Khamenei was the victim of an attempted assassination in June 1981 that paralyzed his right arm.
2.) Khamenei has issued a fatwa saying the production, stockpiling and use of nuclear weapons was forbidden under Islam.
3.) Ruhani was just elected President of Iran - June 2013
4.) Mr Rouhani has held several parliamentary posts, including deputy speaker and also served on the Supreme National Security Council.
http://www.aljazeera.com/category/person/ali-Khamenei

Queen of the United Kingdom Queen ELIZABETH II / Prime Minister David Cameron

1.) She is the constitutional monarch of 16 sovereign states.
2.) Elizabeth became Head of the Commonwealth and queen regnant of seven independent Commonwealth countries: the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Pakistan and Ceylon.
3.) Cameron is the youngest Prime Minister (43 when he took office) in over 200 years.
4.) His first child, Ivan, who was born profoundly disabled and needed round the clock care, died in February 2009.
http://canadiancrown.gc.ca/eng/1331810132814

French President Francois HOLLANDE

1.)  He was previously the First Secretary of the French Socialist Party from 1997 to 2008, and a Deputy of the National Assembly of France for Corrèze's 1st Constituency from 1988 to 1993 and again from 1997 to 2012.
2.) He also served as the Mayor of Tulle from 2001 to 2008 and the President of the General Council of Corrèze from 2008 to 2012.
3.) Hollande has no previous experience in a national government position.
4.) The mother of his four children is Segolene Royal, with whom he shared a 30-year relationship.
http://www.politique.net/2008090103-portrait-francois-hollande.htm

Brazilin President  Dilma ROUSSEFF

1.) She is a Brazilian politician who has been the President of Brazil since 1 January 2011.
2.) Rousseff was raised in an upper middle class household in Belo Horizonte.
3.) She opposed Brazil's military dictatorship of the 1960s and '70s, and served three years in prison, where she was repeatedly tortured.
4.) She has been divorced twice.
http://www2.planalto.gov.br/

Venezuelan President Nicolas MADURO Moros

1.)  He was previously the Vice President of Venezuela and the Minister of Foreign Affairs under President Hugo Chávez.
2.) He was a former bus driver.
3.) Nicolás Maduro Moros worked as a bus driver before becoming politically active in the early 1990s.
4.) After President Chávez won a third term in October 2012, he selected Maduro to serve as vice president. Maduro worked alongside the outspoken president, serving as one of his closest advisers as well as a loyal spokesman, until Chávez's death at 58 on March 5, 2013, from cancer.http://www.mre.gov.ve/

Saudi Arabian King ABDALLAH bin Abd al-Aziz Al Saud

1.) He ascended to the throne on 1 August 2005 upon the death of his half-brother, King Fahd.
2.) Abdullah, like Fahd, was one of the many sons of Ibn Saud, the founder of modern Saudi Arabia.
3.) He has fathered 22 children, the youngest when he was 79.
4.) He is worth approximately 21 billon dollars.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/king-abdullah 

Israelite President Shimon PERES/ Prime Minister Binyamin NATEANYAHU

1.) Peres served twice as the Prime Minister of Israel and once as Interim Prime Minister, and has been a member of 12 cabinets in a political career spanning over 66 years
2.) Peres was elected to the Knesset in November 1959 and, except for a three-month-long hiatus in early 2006, served continuously until 2007, when he became President.
3.) Nateanyahu as a child and youth he lived with his family in the US in the years 1956-58 and again in 1963-67.
4.) After his brother Jonathan (Yonni) was killed,
in July 1976, in the course of the Entebbe Operation, of which he was one of the commanders, Netanyahu returned to Israel and started to advocate international cooperation in fighting terrorism.
http://www.president.gov.il/English/Pages/english.aspx




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