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Richest Politicians for the Poors



Abraham Lincoln once quoted that if one wants to check someones character, give him the power.

Today the statistics clearly shows how genius Abraham Lincoln was. These politicians are so rich that they run for Presidency by spending a lot of money on Election Campaign, infact I must say “INVESTING” on election Campaign because for them, it is just a business to govern a country and get the return of their “Investment” by using their “Powers”. The obvious examples can be seen as elections campaign in India and ofcourse Pakistan, where almost all the politicians are feuds and are at least the millionaires in Dollars either it is PPP, PML-N or PML-Q.

Besides, this is sad that the statistics shows that mostly the poorest countries have the richest politicians. So why not to expect that there will be a revolution, why not the people of a poor country will rebel and put up arms and fight against the one in power just like what is happening in Libya against Muammer Gaddafi who was in power since 42 years as a non-royal “ruler”.

Here is the list of the richest politicians of the world with their assets:

1. $ 70 billion - Hosni Mubarak (President of Egypt)

2. $ 40 billion - Vladimir Putin (Prime Minister of Russia)

3. $ 30 billion - Bhumibol Adulyadej (King of Thailand)

4. $ 21 billion - Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud (King of Saudi Arabia)

5. $ 20 billion - Hassanal Bolkiah (Sultan of Brunei)

6. $ 19 billion - Sonia Gandhi (President of Indian National Congress)

7. $ 18 billion - Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan (President of UAE)

8. $ 12 billion - Mohammad bin Rashid Al Maktoum (Prime Minister of UAE)

9. $ 6.5 billion - Silvio Berlusconi (Prime Minister of Italy)

10. $ 3.5 billion - Hans-Adam II (Prince of Liechtenstein)

11. $ 2.2 billion - Sebastian Pinera (President of Chile)

12. $ 2.0 billion - Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani (Ameer of Qatar)

13. $ 1.9 billion - Saad Hariri (Prime Minister of Lebanon)

14. $ 1.8–4 billion - Asif Ali Zardari (President of Pakistan)

15. $ 1.0 billion - Albert II (Prince of Morocco)

16. $ 700 million - Qaboos bin Said Al Said (Sultan of Oman)

17. £ 450 million - Elizabeth II (Queen of each Common Wealth Realms)

18. $ 400 million - Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah (Ameer of Kuwait)

19. $ 200 million - Beatrix I (Queen of Netherland)

20. $ 100 million - Mswati III (King of Swaziland)

21. $ 42 million - Carl XVI Gustaf (King of Sweden)

22. £ 30 million - David Cameron (Prime Minister of UK)

23. $ 37 million - John Key (Prime Miniter of New Zealand)

24. $ 24 million - Lee Myung-bak (President of South Korea)

25. $ 13 million - Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (President of Argentina)

26. $ 10.1 billion - Barack Obama (President of United States of America)

27. $ 1.8 million - Recep Tayyip Erdogan (Prime Minister of Turkey)

28. $ 670,000 - Felipe Calderon (President of Mexico)

29. $ 640,000 - Dilma Rousseff (President of Brazil)

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