Jacob Zuma

For years, South Africa’s 4th president, Jacob Zuma, who finally resigned on Valentine’s Day this year, ignored calls to step down as the country’s president. He was accused of corruption, fraud, money-laundering and racketeering charges related to an arms deal. These include 783 payments made to him by a former financial adviser who was convicted of graft.

Amidst all the accusation, Zuma, seemingly unperturbed, shook off scandals with his trademark chuckle. He had taken to the airwaves once before in an address some thought would be a resignation after a court found he had violated the constitution by failing to pay back public funds spent on his private rural estate. But instead, he only apologised for what he was being accused of.

Pedro Pablo Kuczynski

The 66 president of Peru, Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, was only in office for two years. The politician who had served in various government positions was elected president of the South American country in July 2016 and resigned his position in March this year, following allegations of corruption.

According to reports, the former president, who survived impeachment plans a year before he resigned, was accused of receiving millions of dollars in payments from a Brazilian construction giant, Odebrecht, in the name of his private investment company. For past several years, Odebrecht was implicated in one of Latin America’s largest-ever corruption scandals, centered in Brazil and known there as Operation Car Wash.

Hailemariam Desalegn

After the death of former Ethopian Prime Minister, Meles Zenawi, in 2012, 52-year-old Hailemariam Desalegn came to power. The political leader who resigned in the first quarter of this year, under his six-year reign, took crucial turns both politically and economically, overseeing both creeping authoritarianism and immense economic growth of the country.

He had to resign after senior opposition figures and prominent journalists were released in a bid to calm lingering tensions that troubled Ethiopia for over two years saying that: “Unrest and a political crisis have led to the loss of lives and displacement of many. I see my resignation as vital in the bid to carry out reforms that would lead to sustainable peace and democracy.”

In a televised speech, he said that he was resigning as both premier and chairman of the Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front to allow the dialogue to continue.

Malcolm Turnbull

Former Australian leader, Malcolm Bligh Turnbull, was the MP for Wentworth in the House of Representatives from 2004 to 2018 and the country’s 29th Prime Minister from 2015 to 2018. The politician however, formerly resigned from his 14 year career in August this year.

Turnbull graduated from the University of Sydney with a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Laws, before attending Brasenose College, Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, earning a Bachelor of Civil Law. For over two decades prior to entering politics, he worked as a journalist, lawyer, merchant banker, and venture capitalist.

The former PM retired to his multimillion-dollar harbourside mansion.

Miro Cerar

The government of former Slovenian Prime Minister, Miro Cerar, faced several hitches before it ended the way it did in March this year. There were waves of strike by public sector workers amid the country’s economic recovery and the closure of many schools in the country as teachers went on strike for one reason or the other. But it was the country’s Supreme Court’s annulment of the results of a referendum held the year before that finally broke the camel’s back.

Over 53 per cent of voters had in September 2017, voted in favour of a government railway project that was set to cost $1.24bn, making it the center-left government’s biggest investment programme. Some citizens, however, were concerned that the project was too high and that the government had given itself a leg-up in the campaign.

A civil society group, Taxpayers Don’t Give Up brought the case to Slovenia’s Supreme Court, and after the court agreed with them, the regime of Cerar was ended.

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And you forgot to add Richard Nixon who resign as President of the United State in August 1974 over the water gate scandal.