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Who in your opinion was the best head of state in the last 100 years, and why? This would include presidents, monarchs, prime ministers etc.
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Serious Best recent leader of your country?
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Are we talking globally, or specifically for our own country?
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This country hasn't had a competent leader since Churchill.
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I see that title change.
Honestly, I find it hard to say. Bob Hawke maybe, he did a lot of good through things like bringing Medicare in and starting environmental initiatives but he also did some really dumb economic stuff like privatising Commonwealth Bank and deregulating our economy so I'm hesitant to give him too much credit.
Edit: Actually, maybe Gough Whitlam. He ended conscription, fought for free university education, implemented legal aid and otherwise laid the groundwork for a lot of positive things including much of the good Hawke did. Plus, he had a backbone which is something more recent leaders have been lacking.
Honestly, I find it hard to say. Bob Hawke maybe, he did a lot of good through things like bringing Medicare in and starting environmental initiatives but he also did some really dumb economic stuff like privatising Commonwealth Bank and deregulating our economy so I'm hesitant to give him too much credit.
Edit: Actually, maybe Gough Whitlam. He ended conscription, fought for free university education, implemented legal aid and otherwise laid the groundwork for a lot of positive things including much of the good Hawke did. Plus, he had a backbone which is something more recent leaders have been lacking.
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The best human being to lead our country was José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, who won decisively against a terrorist group that had killed over 800 people during the previous four decades and was disbanded on his watch having achieved no concessions whatsoever, passed strong bans on smoking, pensions for disabled people and their carers, legalised same-sex marriage and adoption, legalised abortion without limits during the first quater of pregnancy, left the Iraq war right after taking power, launched a campaign (with accompanying laws) to tackle violence on women (including the creation of a Gender Equality ministry and having a gender-balanced cabinet), and slashed the number of driving accidents through a points-based license. All of that while being a throughly nice man who was mocked by his opponents for being too understanding.
The most transformative was his predecessor as socialist leader, Felipe González, who cleaned and modernised up the country after decades of a rancid, religious, military and fascist dictatorship. He created the national healthcare and pensions system -which until then only existed for a minority- and stablished a lot of social measures that nowadays seem incredibly moderate or even conservative but that, back then, were utterly shocking, coming as we did from 40 years of the most hard-right extreme imaginable.
And the man who will probably go down in history was Adolfo Suárez, a moderate conservative who was handed over the absolute powers of Franco's dictatorship after his death and decided to use them to force the system into dissolving itself. In just over three years, he repealed Franco's fascist constitution, called for free elections, legalised all political parties -including the communists that, until then, had been murdered by the regime without asking questions-, passed a new constitution modeled on Germany's parliamentary system, devolved the highly centralised power held by the regime to 19 states, and resigned. He came, turned Spain from a putrid catholic dictatorship into a modern democracy, and left. Nobody ever did more from our country in so short a time.
The most transformative was his predecessor as socialist leader, Felipe González, who cleaned and modernised up the country after decades of a rancid, religious, military and fascist dictatorship. He created the national healthcare and pensions system -which until then only existed for a minority- and stablished a lot of social measures that nowadays seem incredibly moderate or even conservative but that, back then, were utterly shocking, coming as we did from 40 years of the most hard-right extreme imaginable.
And the man who will probably go down in history was Adolfo Suárez, a moderate conservative who was handed over the absolute powers of Franco's dictatorship after his death and decided to use them to force the system into dissolving itself. In just over three years, he repealed Franco's fascist constitution, called for free elections, legalised all political parties -including the communists that, until then, had been murdered by the regime without asking questions-, passed a new constitution modeled on Germany's parliamentary system, devolved the highly centralised power held by the regime to 19 states, and resigned. He came, turned Spain from a putrid catholic dictatorship into a modern democracy, and left. Nobody ever did more from our country in so short a time.
