List of populists

The following is a list of populist parties, leaders and movements.

This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it.

Africa

South Africa

• Economic Freedom Fighters[1]
• Freedom Front Plus[2]
• Jacob Zuma[3]

Zambia

• Michael Sata[3]

Americas

Argentina

• Juan Perón (1946-1955) (1973-1974)
• Isabel Martínez de Perón (1974-1976)
• Antonio Cafiero (1983-1989)
• Carlos Menem (1989-1999) [3]
• Eduardo Duhalde (1999-2003)
• Néstor Kirchner (2003-2010) [3]
• Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (2007-present) [3]
• Alberto Fernández (2019-present)

Bolivia

• Evo Morales (2006-2019) [3]

Brazil

• Getulio Vargas (1930-1945) (1951-1954)
• Fernando Collor de Mello (1990-1992) [3]
• Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (2003-2010)
• Dilma Rousseff (2011-2016)
• Jair Bolsonaro (2019-present) [4]

Canada

• Preston Manning (1997-2000) [5]

• Maxime Bernier (2018-present) [6]
• Doug Ford (2018-present) [7]

Ecuador

• Abdalá Bucaram Jr. (2009-2014) [3]
• Rafael Correa (2007-2017) [3]
• Lucio Gutiérrez (2003-2005) [3]

Guatemala

• Jimmy Morales (2016-2020)

Mexico

• Andrés Manuel López Obrador (2018-present)

Nicaragua

• Daniel Ortega (1979-1990) (2007-present) [4]

Paraguay

• Fernando Lugo (2008-2012) [3]

Peru

• Alberto Fujimori (1990-2000) [8][3]

United States

• Andrew Jackson (1829-1837)
• William Jennings Bryan (1896-1908)
• Huey Long (1932-1935)
• George Wallace (1962-1976)
• Bernie Sanders (1991-present)
• Ross Perot (1992-1996)
• Steve Bannon (2017-present)
• Donald Trump (2017-present) [9][3]
• Josh Hawley (2019-present)
• People's Party (United States)

Venezuela

• Rafael Caldera (1994-1999) [3]

• Hugo Chavez (1999-2013) [10][3]
• Nicolás Maduro (2013-present) [3]

Asia

India

• Narendra Modi[3]

Indonesia

• Joko Widodo[3]

Israel

• Benjamin Netanyahu[3]

Japan

• Junichiro Koizumi[3]
• Yuriko Koike[11][12]
• Tarō Yamamoto[13]

Philippines

• Rodrigo Duterte[14]
• Joseph Estrada[3]

Sri Lanka

• Mahinda Rajapaksa[3]

Taiwan

• Chen Shui-bian[3]

Thailand

• Thaksin Shinawatra[3]
• Yingluck Shinawatra[3]

Turkey

• Recep Tayyip Erdoğan[3]

Bangladesh

• Sheikh Hasina[3]

Europe

Austria

• Freedom Party of Austria[15]
• Team Stronach[15]

Belarus

• Alexander Lukashenko[3]

Belgium

• Vlaams Belang[15]
• National Front[15]

Bulgaria

• Attack[15]
• Boyko Borisov[3]
• Reload Bulgaria[15]
• National Front for the Salvation of Bulgaria[15]
• National Movement for Stability and Progress[15]

Croatia

• Croatian Democratic Alliance of Slavonia and Baranja[15]

• Croatian Democratic Union[15]

• Croatian Party of Rights[15]
• Croatian Party of Rights 1861[15]
• Croatian Party of Rights Dr. Ante Starčević[15]
• Croatian Peasant Party[15]
• Croatian Democratic Peasant Party[15]
• Human Shield][16]
• Workers' Front[17][18]

Czechia

• Freedom and Direct Democracy[19]
• Miloš Zeman[3]
• Tricolour Citizens' Movement
• Andrej Babiš[3]

Denmark

• Danish People's Party[20][15]

Estonia

• Conservative People's Party of Estonia[21]

France

• La France Insoumise[22][19]
• Marine Le Pen[23] and National Rally[19][15]
• Movement for France[15]
• Pierre Poujade, founder of Poujadism.[24]
• Yellow vests movement[25]

Finland

• Finns Party[26][15]

Georgia

• Mikheil Saakashvili[3]

Germany

• Alternative for Germany[27][19][15]
• National Democratic Party of Germany[15]

Greece

• Golden Dawn[15]
• Alexis Tsipras
• Syriza[19][15]
• Independent Greeks[15]
• Popular Orthodox Rally[15]

Hungary

• Fidesz[19][15]
• Hungarian Justice and Life Party[15]
• Jobbik[19][15]
• Viktor Orbán[3]
• Our Homeland Movement

Italy

• Berlusconism
  • Silvio Berlusconi[3]
• Brothers of Italy[15]

• The Five Star Movement[28][19][15]
• League[19][15]

Latvia

• For Latvia from the Heart[15]
• Latvian Association of Regions[15]

Lithuania

• Order and Justice[15]

Luxembourg

• Alternative Democratic Reform Party[15]

Netherlands

• Forum for Democracy[19]
• Party for Freedom[19][15]
• Pim Fortuyn List[15]
• Reformed Political Party[15]

North Macedonia

• Nikola Gruevski[3]

Norway

• Progress Party[15]

Poland

• Kukiz'15[19]
• Law and Justice[19][15]
• Lech Wałęsa[3]
• Real Politics Union[15]

Portugal

• Chega[29]
• Bloco de Esquerda[30][31]

Romania

• Traian Băsescu[3]
• People's Party – Dan Diaconescu[15]
• Poporanism
• Liviu Dragnea[32]

Russia

• Narodniks
• Vladimir Putin[3]
• Vladimir Zhirinovsky

Serbia

• Aleksandar Vučić[3]

Spain

• Podemos[19][15]
• Vox[19]

Slovakia

• Robert Fico[3]
• Slovak National Party[19][15]
• Vladimír Mečiar[3]
• Kotleba - People's Party Our Slovakia
• We Are Family
• Ordinary People[19][15]

Slovenia

• Slovenian Democratic Party[15]
• Slovenian National Party

Sweden

• Sweden Democrats[33][19][15]

Switzerland

• Federal Democratic Union of Switzerland[15]

• Swiss People's Party[34][15]
• Ticino League[34][15]
• Geneva Citizens' Movement[34]

Ukraine

• Volodymyr Zelensky[35]

United Kingdom

• Brexit Party
• British National Party[15]
• Nigel Farage
• Jeremy Corbyn[36]
• Boris Johnson[37]
• UK Independence Party[19][15]

Oceania

Australia

• Pauline Hanson's One Nation
• United Australia Party
• Jacqui Lambie Network
• Katter's Australian Party

New Zealand

• New Zealand First

See also

• Populism

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