Ukraine · 2019–
Volodymyr Zelenskyy
Wartime president of a plural democracy under invasion. Hard to separate the man from the emergency.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy is on the world-leaders chart for Ukraine, 2019–. The placement note, from the public governing record, is: Wartime president of a plural democracy under invasion. Hard to separate the man from the emergency.
The dot is economics +8 and authority +18, 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: A servant of the people: end the oligarchs and the war in the east. Done: The full-scale invasion reset the job. Martial rule, aid, and a fight for territory replaced the peace platform. 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 Lech Wałęsa (Poland, +14 / +20) and Golda Meir (Israel, -4 / +24). 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.