Five Most Powerful Women of the World in 2016

• 12.29.2016, 11:35
•  Europe,  America,  World,  Info

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From year to year the number of influential women in politics becomes more and more. Recently Forbes has published the list of world’s 100 most powerful women of 2016, but among them we will pick up only the most 5 powerful women in politics. 

Thus, on the first place is the 62-year-old German Chancellor Angela Merkel, a politician, who in 2016 was tasked to maintain a united European front in the wake of Brexit and manage more than 1 million migrants in Germany and who has fought against the ISIS militants without direct military actions. And now she is preparing for parliamentary elections in 2017. 

Though not being elected as the President of the US, 69-year-old Hillary Clinton is still considered to be the second most powerful woman politician in the world. During her presidential campaign she faced many scandals, which, however, she was able to overcome and even not being elected by the Electoral College, she received more votes than Trump.

The third most powerful woman of the world is considered to be 64-year-old Park Guen-hye, the President of South Korea. Having ruled South Korea for almost two decades, she was able to maintain a firm and uncompromising stance against nuclear testing in the north, also having the support of the world's superpowers. However, it seems that 2016 will be the last year for her as President. Now the Constitutional court of the country is considering her impeachment, because of a corruption scandal. 

52-year-old Michelle Obama, the first lady of the US is considered to be the forth most powerful woman of 2016. Among the most important initiatives of the First Lady is Let's Move, a nationwide campaign to combat childhood obesity, which included revamping school lunches, and the Partnership for a Healthier America.

The fifth most powerful woman of 2015 is considered Tsai Ing-wen. During the presidential elections she was able to win the pro-Beijing Ma Ying-jeou and during her inaugural address she refused to say that she accepts China's definition of "One China", thus raising noise around it, Chinese media writing that she was "extreme" and "emotional" because she was unmarried. 

The picture of the most powerful women in the world, will, of course, change during 2017. Melania Trump will surely enter the list, while Michele Obama will, most probably, come out of it. However, it is difficult to say, on what place Donald Trump’s wife will be. The Prime Minister of Britain, Theresa May, if able to cope with the problems that have risen after Brexit, can also pretend to be included in the list.