Andrzej Duda on the infamous Politico list. The President of Poland was among the "dirty dozen" from Davos

“When you meet President Duda in Davos, do not assume that he is speaking on behalf of Poland”, wrote the American website Politico, which included the Polish president on the infamous list of summit participants. Apart from Andrzej Duda, the “dirty dozen” from Davos included dictators, would-be autocrats, blackmailers, and "political pariahs".

The World Economic Forum in Davos has been organized for over fifty years. This year it was held under the slogan “Rebuilding trust”. 

As noted by the American website Politico, although neither Trump nor Putin appeared in Davos, the guest list still included "would-be autocrats, dictators, bandits, blackmailers, poverty dealers, and political pariahs." It was they who became the antiheroes of the infamous "Dirty Dozen" ranking from Davos.

Duda on the infamous list. He became a member of the “Dirty Dozen” from Davos

"Autocrats, fools, and bores: 12 bad boys from the World Economic Forum having fun in the Swiss Alps," writes the Politico website about its list. The Polish president took 11th place in the ranking, right behind the Prime Minister of Qatar. "If you compare Polish President Andrzej Duda with some of the people on this list, he seems to be below par.

He is not a dictator ruling a brutal petro-state; he has not invaded any of his neighbors or even wielded a chainsaw on stage", Politico said.

"But Andrzej Duda is a man of yesterday. As the last of the nationalist Law and Justice party, which was swept out of office last year, he clings to his own importance, doing everything in his power to thwart Donald Tusk's government, using his veto powers, and hiding convicted legislators. All this to say: when you meet President Duda in Davos, do not assume that he is speaking on behalf of Poland", said the American portal.

Who else was on the list?

In addition to the Polish president and the previously mentioned Prime Minister of Qatar, the Politico ranking included, among others, the president of Argentina, Javier Milei, known as the Argentine Donald Trump.

"The chainsaw-wielding Javier Milei lacks nothing: he has fanatical supporters, experience as a controversial TV presenter, libertarian anarcho-capitalist politics (except abortion), and... a hairstyle that is impossible to forget," the website lists.

The list also included Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, who forcibly took control of the South Caucasus, deported the region's native inhabitants, and then, according to the portal, locked up reporters opposing him.

The ranking also included Rwandan President Paul Kagame, who changed the country's constitution "to eliminate the inconvenient term limit and strengthen his grip on power while suppressing any opposition."

In addition to him, the following were also “honored”: Chinese Prime Minister Li Qiang, Saudi Crown Prince and Prime Minister Prince Muhammad bin Salman, Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet, Saudi Aramco CEO Amin Nasser, Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico, and Hungarian President Katalin Novak.