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James Michel
3rd President of Seychelles
Qohir Rasulzoda
Tajikistani politician
Gaston Browne
Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda since 2014
Taneti Maamau
Kiribati politician
Valérie Trierweiler
French journalist
Jacques Attali
French economist
Valérie Pécresse
French politician (born 1967)
Ada Colau
Spanish activist and politician
Andrea Leadsom
British politician (born 1963)
Rustam Minnikhanov
Russian politician
D. K. Shivakumar
Doddalahalli Kempegowda Shivakumar, commonly known as D. K. Shiva Kumar is an Indian politician, businessman and statesman who is serving as the 18th Chief Minister of Karnataka since 3 June 2026. A Leader of the Indian National Congress, he formerly served as the Deputy Chief Minister of Karnataka and President of the Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee.
Presidential nominee
In United States politics and government, the term presidential nominee has two different meanings:A candidate for president of the United States who has been selected by the delegates of a political party at the party's national convention to be that party's official candidate for the presidency. A person nominated by a sitting U.S. president to an executive or judicial post, subject to the advice and consent of the Senate.
Barnaby Joyce
Barnaby Thomas Gerard Joyce is an Australian politician who served as the deputy prime minister of Australia and the leader of the National Party from 2016 to 2018 and from 2021 to 2022. Now a member of One Nation, he has been the member of parliament (MP) for the New South Wales division of New England since 2013. Joyce previously held various ministerial positions in the Abbott, Turnbull, and Morrison governments.
Anne Aly
Anne Azza Aly is an Australian politician who has been a Labor member of the House of Representatives since the 2016 election, representing the electorate of Cowan in Western Australia. In 2025, Aly became Minister for Small Business, Minister for International Development and Minister for Multicultural Affairs, joining Albanese's cabinet. She held the Minister for Early Childhood Education and Minister for Youth portfolio in the Albanese ministry from 2022 to 2025.
Andy Harris (politician)
Andrew Peter Harris is an American politician and physician serving as the U.S. representative for Maryland's 1st congressional district since 2011. The district includes the entire Eastern Shore, as well as several eastern exurbs of Baltimore County. He is a member of the Republican Party.
Anita Anand
Anita Indira Anand is a Canadian politician, lawyer and former academic who has been Minister of Foreign Affairs since 2025. A member of the Liberal Party, Anand was elected to the House of Commons in 2019 and is the member of Parliament (MP) for Oakville East. She has held a number of Cabinet portfolios since 2019.
Political gaffe
A political gaffe is an error in speech made by a politician.
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Andrew Bailey (politician)
Andrew Bailey is an American attorney and politician who served as Co-Deputy Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation from 2025 to 2026. A member of the Republican Party, he served as Missouri Attorney General from 2023 to 2025.
Doug Jones (politician)
Gordon Douglas Jones is an American politician and attorney who served as a United States senator from Alabama from 2018 to 2021. A member of the Democratic Party, Jones was previously the United States attorney for the Northern District of Alabama from 1997 to 2001. As of 2026, he is the last Democrat to have won or held statewide office in Alabama.
Elissa Slotkin
Elissa Blair Slotkin is an American politician and former Department of Defense official serving since 2025 as the junior United States senator from Michigan. A member of the Democratic Party, she served in the United States House of Representatives from 2019 to 2025.
Maïté Blanchette Vézina
Maïté Blanchette Vézina is a Canadian politician who was elected to the National Assembly of Quebec in the 2022 Quebec general election. She first represented the riding of Rimouski, having been elected under the banner of the Coalition Avenir Québec. In 2025, she left the CAQ and began to sit as an independent. In 2026, she joined the Conservative Party of Quebec and announced that she would seek re-election in La Peltrie. She previously served as mayor of Sainte-Luce, Quebec.
Mike Caruso (politician)
Michael Allen Caruso is an American politician and businessman who served as Clerk of the Circuit Court and Comptroller of Palm Beach County from August 2025 until his suspension in August 2026. A member of the Republican Party, he previously served in the Florida House of Representatives from 2018 to 2025.
Tom Cotton
Thomas Bryant Cotton is an American politician and former Army officer serving since 2015 as the junior United States senator from Arkansas. From 2013 to 2015 he served in the U.S. House of Representatives, representing Arkansas's 4th congressional district. He is a member of the Republican Party.
Michelle Landry
Michelle Leanne Landry is an Australian politician who has been a member of the House of Representatives since the 2013 federal election, representing the Division of Capricornia. Landry served as the Assistant Minister for Children and Families (2018–2022) and as the Assistant Minister for Northern Australia (2020–2022) in the Morrison government. She is a member of the Liberal National Party of Queensland, and sits with the Nationals in federal parliament.