European heads of government as legislators
Make of it what you will but a run-down of when European heads of government first entered their national legislatures, from Orbán to Spajić
This was just something that flitted through my mind so I chased it down to its logical conclusion. Here is a list of heads of government from around Europe, and the years in which they were first elected to their national legislatures.
Viktor Orbán (Hungary) 1990
Ulf Kristersson (Sweden) 1991
António Costa (Portugal) 1991
Donald Tusk (Poland) 1991
Robert Fico (Slovakia) 1992
Luc Frieden (Luxembourg) 1994
Olaf Scholz (Germany) 1998
Mette Frederiksen (Denmark) 2001
Talat Xhaferi (North Macedonia) 2002
Mark Rutte (Netherlands) 2003
Kyriakos Mitsotakis (Greece) 2004
Giorgia Meloni (Italy) 2006
Petteri Orpo (Finland) 2007
Katrín Jakobsdóttir (Iceland) 2007
Leo Varadkar (Ireland) 2007
Jonas Gahr Støre (Norway) 2009
Pedro Sánchez (Spain) 2009
Alexander De Croo (Belgium) 2010
Kaja Kallas (Estonia) 2011
Borjana Krišto (Bosnia and Herzegovina) 2011
Andrej Plenković (Croatia) 2011
Marcel Ciolacu (Romania) 2012
Petr Fiala (Czechia) 2013
Rishi Sunak (United Kingdom) 2015
Ingrida Šimonytė (Lithuania) 2016
Robert Abela (Malta) 2017
Gabriel Attal (France) 2017
Karl Nehammer (Austria) 2017
Nikolai Denkov (Bulgaria) 2022
Evika Siliņa (Latvia) 2022
Milojko Spajić (Montenegro) 2023
Notes
This is not an exhaustive list of European polities.
The following heads of government have not held seats in their national legislatures: Nikos Christodoulides (Cyprus), Viktor Rossi (Switzerland), Ana Brnabić (Serbia), Robert Golob (Slovenia) and Edi Rama (Albania).
Not all of those listed are currently legislators, as some political systems require ministers to be members of the legislature, some prohibit it and some allow but do not mandate it.
Consequently, not all of the above are still legislators, nor have they all served continuously since their first election.
Some, like Robert Fico of Slovakia, were elected to legislatures of states which are no longer extant.