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Azali Assoumani

President of the Comoros, 2002 to 2006 and 2016 to present

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An army officer who first took power in a 1999 coup and returned as elected president in 2016, using constitutional changes and contested elections to extend his rule.

Azali Assoumani sits in the left-authoritarian part of the Caucus economy and liberty compass: slightly state-led and strongly authoritarian. The clearest positions are strongly authoritarian on liberty and authority, strongly religious on religion and strongly traditional on culture. The profile is close to the middle on technology and interventionism.

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Where Azali Assoumani sits on ten dimensions

Each scale runs from one pole to the other, and the dot shows the overall tendency of this person's record and public life. These are simplified estimates and open to debate.

💰EconomySlightly state-led
State-ledFree market
⚖️Liberty and authorityStrongly authoritarian
LibertarianAuthoritarian
🎭CultureStrongly traditional
ProgressiveTraditional
🌍NationLeaning nationalist
GlobalistNationalist
🌱EnvironmentSlightly nature-first
Growth-firstNature-first
🤖TechnologyCentered on technology
Tech-cautiousTech-optimist
🕊️War and peaceLeaning strength-first
Peace-firstStrength-first
🏛️InstitutionsSlightly institutional
Anti-establishmentInstitutional
🙏ReligionStrongly religious
SecularReligious
🛡️InterventionismCentered on interventionism
Non-interventionistInterventionist

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Political views closest to Azali Assoumani

Social conservatismDefends the traditional family, religion and moral norms in law and society.99%One-nation conservatismA paternalist conservatism holding that the better off owe duties to the poor and to…98%MonarchismSupports a hereditary monarch as head of state, from ceremonial constitutional monarchy…98%IslamismA broad family of movements that seek to organize politics and law around Islam, from…97%

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