A growing number of billionaires are in the running to become president in 2020, but America isn’t the only country where 10-figure fortunes have changed politics in the 2010s
, a wealthy investor with a net worth of $9.7 billion, has been a mainstay in Russian politics since 1999, when he joined Russia’s lower house, the State Duma; in 2008, he switched to the Federation Council, Russia’s equivalent of the Senate. Others ran for office only to leave it in short notice:, who made his fortune trading chemicals, joined the Duma in 2012 but stepped down the following year due to health issues.
The 2010s marked the arrival of America’s first billionaire president — and while it’s too early to predict what the next decade has in store, it’s likely that billionaires will continue to wield their wealth to run for office and gain political power. Here’s a list of current and former billionaires who entered politics in the past decade, ranked by order of net worth:Source of wealth: Bloomberg LPSuleiman Kerimov at the Russian Federation Council in Moscow, Russia.
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