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Portuguese Socialist, prime minister 2015–2023: governed with the Left Bloc and Communists, ran a budget surplus and resigned after Operation Influencer. Since December 2024 he has chaired the European Council.
Political axes
António Costa leans further toward progressive than 88% of the 749 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Morality is where António Costa stands furthest from the rest.
On Technology, António Costa sits practically at the catalog median.
Here they share common ground with most personalities.
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Doctrine proposing a democratic and federated global political order where citizens and nations deliberate jointly through multilateral representative institutions and lawful cooperation.
Liberal current that accepts an active role for the state in the economy and in guaranteeing rights, combining individual freedoms and markets with regulation and public policies aimed at the collective good and equality.
Current that unites market capitalism and globalized trade with a robust welfare state, advocating progressive morality, secularism, and democratic institutions, in the Nordic social model.
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FeudalismFar-Right31%
German novelist, 1929 Nobel laureate, author of Buddenbrooks and The Magic Mountain. A nationalist conservative in Reflections of a Nonpolitical Man (1918), he came to defend the Weimar Republic and, exiled in the US, became an anti-Nazi voice.
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A South American presidential republic, Chile combines stable democracy, an open market economy, and a strong social and progressive agenda, a legacy of redemocratization after Pinochet's military dictatorship.
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Post-apartheid transition under Nelson Mandela: first multiracial elections, a government of national unity, the 1996 Constitution, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and moderately liberal economic policy.
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