Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner
Can you say hot? Argentina seems to have a knack of producing captivating politicians, a knack that Britain devastatingly fails at...Teresa May with a good blowdry and substantial amount of make-up? I think not.
Cristina and her beautiful (I assume Chanel) tweed generally appear to stay out of trouble in the political spectrum. Mirroring that foxy Peron lady she followed her husband into politics, gaining just the amount of the presidential vote needed to slyly slip herself into the top job in 2007. She is an advocate of equality, consumption and fairness and her political style is ballsy and ultimately feminist. Feminist in the sense that everything she believes is clearly right and she'll aggressively ignore you until you apologise - sorry Brazil, that's just the woman Argentina is.
However sick this President must get of being compared to Miss Evita, the comparisons are so obviously there to clutch at that it would almost be rude to ignore them. As Fernandez beautifully put it herself, she is the Eva Peron with "the hair in a bun and the clenched fist before a microphone." Add to this a wardrobe so exquisitely large that she is often late to diplomatic meetings because she is getting dressed and you have the archetype of what a female Head of State should, and successfully can, be. Oh, and since her husband's death she has only worn black: Queen Victoria, you have been put to shame.
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