Poland · 1990–1995
Lech Wałęsa
Solidarity leader. Ended communist rule, then a socially traditional post-communist presidency.
Lech Wałęsa is on the world-leaders chart for Poland, 1990–1995. The placement note, from the public governing record, is: Solidarity leader. Ended communist rule, then a socially traditional post-communist presidency.
The dot is economics +14 and authority +20, on a scale from −100 to +100. That is near the middle on economics. The other axis sits toward authority. Left means a larger public role. Up means more authority. Neither direction is treated as the correct one.
A second note separates what was said in public from what the government then did. Said: Solidarity against the party-state, then a Poland of workers and the Church. Done: The communist government fell. Shock therapy was harsher than the shipyard speeches. The gap, when there is one, is part of the placement. A promise that was kept and a promise that was dropped are not given the same weight.
The nearest other figures on these two numbers are Volodymyr Zelenskyy (Ukraine, +8 / +18) and Konrad Adenauer (West Germany, +22 / +30). Nearest means nearest on the chart, not alike in character.
Two governments can share a number and share nothing else. The source is the public governing record, not a news write-up and not a campaign advertisement.