Your favorite incumbent leader (worldwide)

[Kingpoleon]

Moreno when he swears in, Rutte or Trudeau for now.

Why??

He's a populist-ish centrist-ish. Trudeau is better, for sure. Not a great batch of leaders to choose from, no matter what.

Rutte (and especially his party) is centre-right. The VVD is one of the more neoliberal mainstream centre-right parties in Europe imo.

VVD is definitely closer to being classical liberal than populist.

[Illiniwek]

Francis

Honestly, I'm tempted to agree.

Ya this is really the winning answer.

[Spark]

Besides Trump, has to be Theresa May.

[Maxwell]

Taking into account the ones that I know about

Macri

Macri is probably my favorite world leader who could be described as right of center, mostly because he seems stable enough and is not of the awful "Peronist" tradition.

[Blue3]

Probably Trudeau, Merkel, Francis

[DavidB.]

May, easily.

VVD is definitely closer to being classical liberal than populist.

The VVD accept the fundamental tenets of the Dutch welfare state, so no, fortunately they are not at all close to being classical liberal. They are, however, pretty populist.

What's more, populism is not an ideology, it's more of a style (Americans don't seem to get this and I don't know why). A party can theoretically be both classical liberal and populist.

[Green Line]

Enda Kenny.  He brought Ireland back from the brink.

[Kingpoleon]

Probably Trudeau, Merkel, Francis

IIRC, isn't your PM a score something like -7.50 economics?

[MAINEiac4434]

Antonio Costa, Justin Trudeau, Alexander van der Bellen, Stefan Löfven, Emmanuel Macron, Angela Merkel are all varying levels of acceptable because each has some commitment to democracy, freedom and equality, even if Trudeau, Macron and Merkel are to my right. Some of the Latin American lefties like Evo are fine too, but I'm suspicious of their apologist stances on Venezuela. Lula will be up there when he wins the presidency of Brazil.

Generally, though, most world leaders suck.

[TheSaint250]

Outside of the US, Theresa May.  She'll probably be tied with Sebastian Kurz if he becomes chancellor.

[Neo-JacobitefromNewYork]

Shavkat Mirziyoyev stock is rising fast, Uzbekistan is developing close relationships with its' Central Asian neighbors after being a total jerk nation under Karimov.

[SNJ1985]

Orbán

[OSR stands with Israel]

Modi


And for the first time in decades my favorite leader wont be from a western country

I dont know that many world leaders before 1979 so this is my list of favorite world leaders since then

1979-1981(till the Reagan tax cuts pass): Margaret Thatcher 
1981-1989: Ronald Reagan
1989-1993: George HW Bush
1993-1996(till clinton signed the welfare reform bill): Helmut Kohl
1996-2001: Bill Clinton
2001-2006: George W Bush
2006- 2009: Stephen Harper
2009-Obama
2009(By November )- 2010: Stephen Harper
2010-2016: David Cameron
2016-2017(till yesterday) : Theresa May
Now : Modi

[Technocracy Timmy]

Justin Trudeau.

[Beet]

Justin Trudeau.

[Lechasseur]

Viktor Orban

[Wake Me Up When The Hard Border Ends]

Bill English (Prime Minister of New Zealand).