Well, not Havel exactly. Havel was a really popular leader of a
freedom movement and a figurehead/international ambassador once he
was actually elected - a president, not a prime minister, just like
. People in a Middle Eastern country would have to be introduced to
why he was popular and why he, not someone who knows a lot about
building a state, has been put in charge.
How about this guy?
http://www.nato.int/pfp/lt/biogr/a_m_brazauskas.html
He's from the less nationalistic wing of the pro-privatization
liberal party; he's the only Communist holdover still to have power
in Lithuanian politics; he's a practical but not totally cynical
politician. He's been the chairman of the parliament; President;
and is now starting his first term as Prime Minister.
And Lithuanians are very pro-American by European standards.
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