Corruption perceptions index during each government's tenure

27 governments, ranked by how the corruption perceptions index changed from their first day in office, next to the European Union over the same months. Politare shows what happened during a tenure; it does not claim the office-holder caused it.

#	Government	Country	In office	Total	vs EU	Per year	Chart
1	Bohuslav Sobotka	Czechia	17 Jan 2014 – 6 Dec 2017	+9.0 points 2013 → 2017	+7.8 points EU +1.2 points	+2.3 points/yr
2	Zoran Milanović	Croatia	23 Dec 2011 – 22 Jan 2016 from 2012	+5.0 points 2012 → 2015	+2.6 points EU +2.4 points	+1.7 points/yr
3	Petr Fiala	Czechia	17 Dec 2021 – 9 Dec 2025	+5.0 points 2021 → 2025	+6.6 points EU −1.6 points	+1.3 points/yr
4	Jüri Ratas	Estonia	23 Nov 2016 – 26 Jan 2021	+5.0 points 2016 → 2020	+5.3 points EU −0.3 points	+1.3 points/yr
5	Alexis Tsipras	Greece	26 Jan 2015 – 8 Jul 2019	+5.0 points 2014 → 2019	+4.9 points EU +0.1 points	+1.0 points/yr
6	Algirdas Butkevičius	Lithuania	22 Nov 2012 – 22 Nov 2016	+5.0 points 2012 → 2016	+3.6 points EU +1.4 points	+1.3 points/yr
7	Matteo Renzi	Italy	22 Feb 2014 – 12 Dec 2016	+4.0 points 2013 → 2016	+2.8 points EU +1.2 points	+1.3 points/yr
8	Robert Fico	Slovakia	4 Apr 2012 – 22 Mar 2018 from 2012	+4.0 points 2012 → 2017	+2.6 points EU +1.4 points	+0.8 points/yr
9	Boyko Borissov	Bulgaria	4 May 2017 – 12 May 2021	+3.0 points 2016 → 2020	+3.3 points EU −0.3 points	+0.8 points/yr
10	Nicos Christodoulides	Cyprus	28 Feb 2023 – now	+3.0 points 2022 → 2025	+4.4 points EU −1.4 points	+1.0 points/yr

Showing 10 of 48 tenures.

Sorted by total, highest first. Every row is indexed to the last count complete before the first day in office ("from" marks a start that had to move because that count had no data, or because the period cut it); the European Union is measured over the same months. Levels are per cent changes, rates are differences in points; "per year" compounds levels and divides rates. Tenures with under 12 months, or under three observations, are left out. points, 0 to 100, higher is cleaner · Transparency International, Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI score): perceived public-sector corruption as business people and country experts rate it, comparable from 2012, the score as TI publishes it with its confidence interval; the European Union line is Politare's unweighted mean of the 27 members' scores · country data · as of Sep 2026.