Who is your favorite Center-Right or Right Wing Leader in the world(Current)

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John Key is pretty affable, especially considering the rotten legacy of NZ National leaders. Shame about the whole ponytail fetish, though.

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The Japanese right (and Abe in general) are fans of "public works" in a very top-down paternalistic sense. It's how their power structure works - they have the power, and will dole out capital if you work along with the status quo. It's  government that operates in a mutualistic relationship with the large businesses.

At first glance, this is macro-economically superior to the Eurozone's self-corseting gold standrad or the Republican Party's explicitly nihilistic agenda; but looking at the way Japan's economy actually works - the power structure of the companies, descended from the old Zaibatsu; the working hours verging on systematic abuse and of course the increased dependence on consumption taxes that makes the overly friendly relationships between the private sector and the government appear dangerously retrograde.

All though I will say Abe makes a killer MArio.

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I understand why people are saying Merkel, but I disagree. A serial problem with her, from her swift reversal from ultra-rightist economics in her first election to her policies on energy, refugees and the euro; is that all her policies are basically driven by reaction rather than planning. fact the refugee crisis makes it most obvious. She was the primary drag in Renzi's attempts to alleviate the early stages of the crisis through quotas, and allowed it spiral out of control in early 2015; at which point her government shifted gears in a way that was ultimately cruel to the millions of refugees who were given hope of a resettlement that would never come. As the polls soured on migrants and the Right of her party started to bubble up long-standing resentments against her abandonment of rightist values after her 2005 setback; she again became reactive (see: the Turk Erdogan deal, which will probably be repeated across Africa with various despots)

As somebody who supports European integration, she is damaging the integrity of the EU and plays a serious part to blame in the resentments and crack-ups within the bloc. I highly doubt she will be viewed favourably by history.

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The Japanese right (and Abe in general) are fans of "public works" in a very top-down paternalistic sense. It's how their power structure works - they have the power, and will dole out capital if you work along with the status quo. It's  government that operates in a mutualistic relationship with the large businesses.

At first glance, this is macro-economically superior to the Eurozone's self-corseting gold standrad or the Republican Party's explicitly nihilistic agenda; but looking at the way Japan's economy actually works - the power structure of the companies, descended from the old Zaibatsu; the working hours verging on systematic abuse and of course the increased dependence on consumption taxes that makes the overly friendly relationships between the private sector and the government appear dangerously retrograde.

All though I will say Abe makes a killer MArio.

Agreed. It's probably the one G20 country where economic liberalism might actually be easier on the average Jōsuke than more 'internal improvements'. At least the freeters get some time to themselves, even if the culture isn't there for them to use it well.

no wonder that YP is now part of the Democrats. I think the case could be argued that Korea is in a similar boat. Maybe PRC as well, considering how much the state just perversely invests in power plants that are immediately mothballed and cities which lie empty to fulfill quotas.

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I'd expect most of you guys to come up with Xavier Bettel tbh. Eurofederalist liberal, governing with social democrats and greenies, implementing SSM, supporting voting rights for foreigners...

For me, Theresa May.

Luxembourg is not a real country though

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I'd expect most of you guys to come up with Xavier Bettel tbh. Eurofederalist liberal, governing with social democrats and greenies, implementing SSM, supporting voting rights for foreigners...

For me, Theresa May.

Luxembourg is not a real country though

I think you'll find it is

present evidence

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Erna Solberg of Norway seems okay to me.

the Norwegian Right's main economic plan is to splurge their entire Oil Fund on tax cuts and spending increases.

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I'd expect most of you guys to come up with Xavier Bettel tbh. Eurofederalist liberal, governing with social democrats and greenies, implementing SSM, supporting voting rights for foreigners...

For me, Theresa May.

Luxembourg is not a real country though

I think you'll find it is

present evidence

From http://www.nationsonline.org/oneworld/luxembourg.htm:
'The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, is a landlocked country in Western Europe.'

that isn't evidence.

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Eh, maybe Ellen Sirleaf. Or Jokowi. Too many mediocrities nowadays. Actually Santos is pretty OK, despite failing in the referendum.