Political stability during each government's tenure

27 governments, ranked by how the political stability 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	Adrian Năstase	Romania	28 Dec 2000 – 29 Dec 2004	+6.1 points 2000 → 2004	+11.3 points EU −5.2 points	+1.5 points/yr
2	Alexis Tsipras	Greece	26 Jan 2015 – 8 Jul 2019	+5.8 points 2014 → 2019	+7.9 points EU −2.1 points	+1.2 points/yr
3	Tassos Papadopoulos	Cyprus	1 Mar 2003 – 28 Feb 2008	+5.5 points 2002 → 2007	+7.4 points EU −1.8 points	+1.1 points/yr
4	Donald Tusk	Poland	16 Nov 2007 – 22 Sep 2014	+5.1 points 2007 → 2014	+5.6 points EU −0.5 points	+0.7 points/yr
5	Robert Fico	Slovakia	4 Jul 2006 – 8 Jul 2010	+4.8 points 2006 → 2010	+4.6 points EU +0.2 points	+1.2 points/yr
6	Janez Janša	Slovenia	3 Dec 2004 – 21 Nov 2008	+4.7 points 2004 → 2008	+1.1 points EU +3.6 points	+1.2 points/yr
7	Algirdas Butkevičius	Lithuania	22 Nov 2012 – 22 Nov 2016	+4.3 points 2012 → 2016	+6.1 points EU −1.8 points	+1.1 points/yr
8	Andrus Ansip	Estonia	13 Apr 2005 – 26 Mar 2014	+4.2 points 2004 → 2013	+2.1 points EU +2.1 points	+0.5 points/yr
9	Pedro Passos Coelho	Portugal	21 Jun 2011 – 26 Nov 2015	+4.2 points 2010 → 2015	+5.2 points EU −1.1 points	+0.8 points/yr
10	Victor Ponta	Romania	7 May 2012 – 17 Nov 2015	+4.1 points 2011 → 2015	+4.3 points EU −0.2 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_PV.SC): perceptions of the likelihood of political instability or politically motivated violence, terrorism included, 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.