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Saudi prince and founder of Kingdom Holding, Alwaleed invested in Citigroup, Twitter, Four Seasons and News Corp and advocated economic opening and women's employment in the kingdom. He was detained in 2017 in Mohammed bin Salman's anti-corruption campaign.
Political topics
Alwaleed bin Talal leans further toward free market than 90% of the 569 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the topics, Free market is where Alwaleed bin Talal stands furthest from the rest.
On Representation, Alwaleed bin Talal sits practically at the catalog median.
Here they share common ground with most personalities.
Ideological proximity
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Current reconciling Islam with electoral democracy through conservative religious parties that run in elections and support a market economy and Muslim values in public life, like Turkey's early AKP and Tunisia's Ennahda.
Pragmatic branch that prioritizes fiscal adjustment, economic stability, and governability through broad coalitions, accepting market reforms and political concessions in the name of short- and medium-term results.
Synthesis that unites free markets and economic freedoms with the appreciation of tradition, order, and institutions, defending prudent change and social stability within the framework of liberal democracy.
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Green AnarchismAnarchist33%
King of Jordan since 1999, Abdullah II concentrates power over government, army and foreign policy, keeps peace with Israel and the Western alliance and pushes liberal economic reforms, while restricting the opposition and banning the Muslim Brotherhood in 2025.
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A West African presidential republic, Ivory Coast is led by Alassane Ouattara, has a cocoa and coffee economy, emerged from the civil wars of 2002 and 2011, lives with a Muslim north and Christian south divide and keeps close ties with France.
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An aristocratic republic of antiquity, Rome balanced consuls, Senate, and tribunes of the plebs in a mixed system of elective magistracies, expanding across the Mediterranean through citizen legions and a strong cult of civic virtue.
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