There are some truths universally acknowledged in the United States: John Edwards is super sexy and so is San Francisco bad-boy mayor Gavin Newsom (especially when he’s talking about true love, which he seems to do a lot).
But have you heard about Italy’s Minister for Equal Opportunities, Mara Carfagna—risque model and beauty queen turned national politician?
And—hold onto your britches, gals—when you hear former Prime Minister of Japan, Junichiro Koizumi, sing an Elvis song, you’ll realize the King may not be dead after all.
I’ve combed countries near and far for the sexiest politicians. Take a look at the winners:
Mara Carfagna
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi just tapped Mara Carfagna to be Italy’s Minister for Equal Opportunities. Before entering politics, Carfagna’s career spanned stints as a TV personality, a topless model for raunchy photo shoots, and a sixth-place finish as Miss Italy. According to The Daily Telegraph, seventy-one-year-old Berlusconi told Carfagna at an awards dinner last year that if he wasn’t married, he would “gladly marry” her. Berlusconi’s wife, according to the report, sent a letter demanding an apology for embarrassing the budding politician. You can check out Carfagna’s official Web site.
Photo source: alexiej2007 on flickr (cc)
Tania Derveaux
While Mara Carfagna has put her naked days behind her, one of Belgium’s senatorial candidates, Tania Derveaux, has stripped all clothes—and sense or propriety—from her bid for office. She is the NEE political party’s leading candidate for Senate, and launched an advertisement in which she posed naked and offered to create 400,000 new jobs (a parody making fun of other candidates’ outlandish promises).
Once the advertisement made the rounds, she received hundreds of emails asking for 400,000 blowjobs. Her response: “If this would get us even more media attention, I’m willing to give 40,000 blowjobs to make the statement. According to my planning, this would take me 500 days to tour around the world, visiting all the ones who signed up for a blowjob on this page, giving eighty blowjobs per day. So the offer is limited, sign up while you still can.”
The NEE (which means “no” in Dutch) party is a political protest group offering alternatives to established political parties in Belgium.
Photo source: NEE political party Web site
Maxime Bernier
The guy is just sexy. The Foreign Affairs Minister of Canada likes biker girls: his girlfriend (or at least until recently) is Julie Couillard, a chick who in the 1990s was romantically involved with Hells Angels member Gilles Giguere (until he was gunned down in 1996 before facing trial on weapons and drug charges, according to Thestar.com.)
So why is Bernier painted as a bad man because of his romance? I think it makes him a Hunter Thompson-style gonzo politician who may like to shimmy into leather when he’s not meeting with world leaders—and that’s pretty cool.
Photo source: NationalPost.com
