THE PEOPLE BEHIND THE POLITICS
Careers. Context.
The road to here.
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Where do they stand?
Legal immigration & asylum access · 1: Near-total closure of legal entry · 10: Minimal admission limits and broad regularization. Historical positions are dated in each profile; unreviewed positions stay blank.
Each score links to its politician’s evidence and full 10-step rubric. No overall ideological ranking.
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United States
Gavin Newsom
Gavin Newsom’s career has moved from San Francisco city government to California statewide office. He served as mayor and lieutenant governor before becoming governor in 2019.
Career timeline & market history ↗United States
JD Vance
JD Vance’s path to national office followed military service, university and law school, work in investment, and publication of Hillbilly Elegy. He won an Ohio Senate seat in 2022 before joining the Republican presidential ticket in 2024.
Career timeline & market history ↗United States
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez entered Congress after defeating a longtime incumbent in a 2018 Democratic primary in New York. Her earlier work included community organizing and service-industry employment.
Career timeline & market history ↗France
Jordan Bardella
Jordan Bardella’s parliamentary record includes service in the European Parliament with France’s Rassemblement national delegation. The Parliament’s records document his committee work and political-group affiliations.
Career timeline & market history ↗France
Marine Le Pen
Marine Le Pen’s National Assembly record documents successive terms representing Pas-de-Calais. Her profile below follows those parliamentary milestones and links separately to market contracts about the French presidency.
Career timeline & market history ↗Brazil
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva rose through Brazil’s metalworkers’ union movement, helped found the Workers’ Party, and later served multiple presidential terms. His career includes repeated presidential campaigns and a return to the presidency after the 2022 election.
Career timeline & market history ↗Brazil
Flávio Bolsonaro
Flávio Bolsonaro’s elected career spans Rio de Janeiro’s state legislature and Brazil’s federal Senate. Official Senate records identify his Senate term and earlier four state-legislative mandates.
Career timeline & market history ↗Canada
Mark Carney
Mark Carney moved from central banking into Canadian federal politics, becoming prime minister in March 2025. His first House of Commons election followed in Nepean in April 2025.
Career timeline & market history ↗United Kingdom
Andy Burnham
Andy Burnham’s career spans Westminster, national ministerial office and the Greater Manchester mayoralty. The government records his appointment as prime minister on 20 July 2026.
Career timeline & market history ↗Germany
Friedrich Merz
Friedrich Merz’s political career includes the European Parliament, multiple periods in the Bundestag and leadership of the CDU. Bundestag members elected him chancellor on 6 May 2025.
Career timeline & market history ↗Italy
Giorgia Meloni
Giorgia Meloni’s career includes parliamentary service, the youth ministry and leadership of Fratelli d’Italia. She became president of the Council of Ministers in October 2022 following the parliamentary election.
Career timeline & market history ↗Japan
Sanae Takaichi
Sanae Takaichi’s career spans the House of Representatives and several ministerial portfolios. Japan’s Diet designated her prime minister again in February 2026 after the lower-house election.
Career timeline & market history ↗India
Narendra Modi
Narendra Modi served as chief minister of Gujarat before becoming India’s prime minister in 2014. He began a third term in June 2024 after the Lok Sabha election and formation of a coalition government.
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