He is also a member of the Club de Madrid, a group of more than 80 former democratic statesmen, which works to strengthen democratic governance and leadership.

He is currently a member of the Club de Madrid, an organization of former democratic statesmen that works to strengthen democratic governance and leadership.

This privileged relation let the artist paint portray the most important characters of the First Republic just like the President Edvard Beneš, democratic statesman and politician during the transition period between the end of Habsburg Empire (1918) and the Communist takeover of February 1948.

Since November 2004, Kučan has been a member of the Club of Madrid, an association of former democratic statesmen that works to strengthen democratic governance.

Prodi is also a member of the Club de Madrid, an international organization of former democratic statesmen, which works to strengthen democratic governance and leadership.

A democratic statesman of Western orientation, Beneš relied heavily on the League of Nations as guarantor of the post war status quo and the security of newly formed states.

The Peloponnesian War was the end of what might be called the Athenian century, the age of such great democratic statesmen as Themistocles and Pericles, of the great tragic and lyric poets and historians.

In taking Louisiana by what he considered extraconstitutional means, he acted more as an enlightened despot than as a democratic statesman devoted to weak government and the preservation of liberty.

Sampaio is a member of the Club de Madrid, an organization of more than 80 former democratic statesmen.