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Salva Kiir

President of South Sudan, 2011 to present

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Led the rebel army to independence and has been president since, through a civil war, repeated election delays and the 2025 arrest of his vice president Riek Machar.

Salva Kiir 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 strength-first on war and peace and strongly religious on religion. The profile is close to the middle on technology.

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Where Salva Kiir 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
🎭CultureLeaning traditional
ProgressiveTraditional
🌍NationLeaning nationalist
GlobalistNationalist
🌱EnvironmentSlightly growth-first
Growth-firstNature-first
🤖TechnologyCentered on technology
Tech-cautiousTech-optimist
🕊️War and peaceStrongly strength-first
Peace-firstStrength-first
🏛️InstitutionsSlightly anti-establishment
Anti-establishmentInstitutional
🙏ReligionStrongly religious
SecularReligious
🛡️InterventionismSlightly interventionist
Non-interventionistInterventionist

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People furthest from Salva Kiir

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Political views closest to Salva Kiir

IslamismA broad family of movements that seek to organize politics and law around Islam, from…97%National conservatismPrioritizes national sovereignty, cultural identity, tradition and firm borders.96%Social conservatismDefends the traditional family, religion and moral norms in law and society.95%CorporatismOrganizes society into industry and professional bodies that bargain with the state, an…93%

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Percentages show how close two profiles are across all ten dimensions. Including a person here is for study and comparison, not approval. Portrait: Ssunaronald, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons; see all photo credits.