Rule of law during each government's tenure

27 governments, ranked by how the rule of law 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	Algirdas Brazauskas	Lithuania	3 Jul 2001 – 4 Jul 2006	+7.5 points 2000 → 2006	+6.5 points EU +0.9 points	+1.2 points/yr
2	Krišjānis Kariņš	Latvia	23 Jan 2019 – 15 Sep 2023	+6.4 points 2018 → 2023	+6.2 points EU +0.2 points	+1.3 points/yr
3	Andrus Ansip	Estonia	13 Apr 2005 – 26 Mar 2014	+6.3 points 2004 → 2013	+6.0 points EU +0.2 points	+0.7 points/yr
4	Donald Tusk	Poland	16 Nov 2007 – 22 Sep 2014	+5.6 points 2007 → 2014	+6.7 points EU −1.1 points	+0.8 points/yr
5	Algirdas Butkevičius	Lithuania	22 Nov 2012 – 22 Nov 2016	+5.2 points 2012 → 2016	+4.5 points EU +0.7 points	+1.3 points/yr
6	TP Aigars Kalvītis	Latvia	2 Dec 2004 – 20 Dec 2007	+4.9 points 2004 → 2007	+3.1 points EU +1.8 points	+1.6 points/yr
7	Ingrida Šimonytė	Lithuania	25 Nov 2020 – 12 Dec 2024	+4.8 points 2020 → 2024	+5.3 points EU −0.5 points	+1.2 points/yr
8	Bohuslav Sobotka	Czechia	17 Jan 2014 – 6 Dec 2017	+4.2 points 2013 → 2017	+3.3 points EU +0.9 points	+1.1 points/yr
9	Mikuláš Dzurinda	Slovakia	30 Oct 1998 – 4 Jul 2006	+4.0 points 1998 → 2006	+2.4 points EU +1.6 points	+0.5 points/yr
10	Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu	Romania	29 Dec 2004 – 22 Dec 2008	+3.9 points 2004 → 2008	+2.6 points EU +1.3 points	+1.0 points/yr

Showing 10 of 99 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 better · World Bank, Worldwide Governance Indicators (GOV_WGI_RL.SC): confidence in contracts, property rights, the police and the courts, a score from 0 to 100 with its 90 % interval; the European Union line is Politare's unweighted mean of the 27 members' scores · country data · as of Sep 2026.