The world's most beautiful female politicians

Luciana Leon, 30, Peru's youngest ever congresswoman and apparently the world's most beautiful female politician

Mara Carfagna is Italy's Minister for Equal Opportunities and came at no 4 in the poll

Alina Kabaeva, 26, is a former gymnast for Russia who is now a politician and came 12th in the poll


Yuri Fujikawa, 27, is known in Japan for her glamour and her youthful political success. She caused a stir by posing in her bikini to attract tourism to Hachinohe City and came 5th in the poll


The Daily Mail has gone into one of its pulchritudinous moods as it has not one but two pages devoted to a poll revealing "The world's most beautiful female politicians". This page has the full list from 1 to 54(?) and some rather pleasant pictures of Peruvian lawyer Luciana Leon who was voted the world's most beautiful female politician followed by fellow countrywoman Mercedes Araoz, as well as U.S vice president elect Sarah Palin who was voted 24th sexiest female politician and Former French presidential candidate Segolene Royal ranked 36th. There are also pictures of U.S Secretary of State Hillary Clinton who was the oldest woman on the list (but I would run many miles to avoid) and Afghan Malalai Joya who came in at 54th place. I must warn you that there are also photos of Jaqui Smith and Ruth Kelly who unsurprisingly failed to even get a mention in the online poll.

The Mail's second page devoted to this important story has more photos and is worth a perusal, although I must warn you that there are also pictures of Margaret Beckett and Harriet Harman.


I can hear feminists shrieking that looks shouldn't be important it should be the competence of the female politician that should count. Well I respectfully draw your attention to Jacqui Smith, Ruth Kelly, Tessa Jowell, Patricia Hewitt, Harriet Harman and most of all Margaret Beckett - competence? beauty? No and No.

Intelligent, highly competent women can be sexy but there aren't any in the Labour government (no Caroline Flint and Yvette Cooper are not sexy, they are just marginally better looking than the rest of a very poor bunch); mind you competent and/or sexy male Labour Ministers are also noticeable by their absence...



UPDATE:
Courtesy of The Mail here's the full list:
The most beautiful female politicians are:

1 - Luciana Leon, 30, Peru

2 - Mercedes Ar?oz 47, Peru

3 - Sara Latife Ruiz Chavez, 32, Mexico

4 - Mara Carfagna, 32, Italy

5 - Yuri Fujikawa, 27, Japan

6 - Anna-Maria Galojan, 26, Estonia

7 - Toireasa Ferris, 29, Ireland

8 - Yuliya Tymoshenko, 48, Ukraine

9 - Eunice Olsen, 31, Singapore

10 - Cayetana ?lvarez, 34, Spain

11 - Vera Lischka, 31, Austria

12 - Alina Kabaev, 26, Russia

13 - Gabriela Cueva, 29, Mexico

14 - Orly Levy, 35, Israel

15 - Cristina Dia, 50, Mexico

16 - Tsepeli Nikolet, 28, Greece

17 - Marianne Thiem, 36, The Netherlands

18 - Carme Chac?, 37, Spain

19 - Pnina Rosenblum, 53, Israel

20 - Bibiana A?d, 31, Spain

21 - Tanja Karpel, 38, Finland

22 - Julia Anastasia Bon, 23, Germany

23 - Ruhama Avraha, 44, Israel

24 - Sarah Palin, 44, United States

25 - Stefania Prestigiacom, 43, Italy

26 - Sofia Larse, 36, Sweden

27 - Angelina Sondak, 32, Indonesia

28 - Cristina Fern?ndez de Kirchne, 56, Argentina

29 - Katr?n Gunnarsd?tti, 43, Iceland

30 - Soraya S?en, 37, Spain

31 - Anastasia Michael, 33, Israel

32 - Stephanie Herseth, 38, United States

33 - M?nica Lorente Ram?, 38, Spain

34 - Hillary Clinton, 61, United States

35 - Melissa Park, 42, Australia

36 - S?gol?ne Roya, 55, France

37 - Jiang Y, 44, China

38 - Freya Van den Bossch, 34, Belgium

39 - Nebahat Albayra, 40, The Netherlands

40 - Kirsten Gillibran, 43, United States

41 - Eva Glawischni, 39, Austria

42 - Sabine Herol, 27, France

43 - Hillevi Larsso, 34, Sweden

44 - Hillevi Larsso, 46, Iceland

45 - Piia-Noora Kaupp, 33, Finland

46 - Sabine B?tzin, 34, German

47 - Isabel dos Santo, Angola

48 - Penny Won, 40, Australia

49 - Kate Elli, 32, Australia

50 - Melissa Lee, New Zealand

51 - Marcela Guerra Castill, Mexico

52 - Delsa Sol?rzano, Venezuela

53 - Natalie Rickl, 33, Sweden

54 - Malalai Joy, 31, Afghanistan