Asian female political leaders (3)

Sonia Gandhi, nee Maino, (1946) is an Indian politician born in Lusiana, Veneto, Italy.
She is the President of the Indian National Congress. She took over as party leader in 1998, seven years after her husband Rajiv Gandhi, a former Prime Minister of India and a descendant of Mahatma Gandhi), had been assassinated in 1991.
She remained in office until 2017 when their son Rahul Gandhi became president. He resigned in 2019 and Sonia became president again.
She is widely described as one of the most powerful politicians in the country and is often listed among the most powerful women in the world

Veronica Michelle Bachet Jeria (b 1951) served as President of Chile from 2006-2010, and 2014-2018. She is the first woman to hold the Chilean presidency and the first female leader in South America. She is the first president of Chile to be elected since 1932.

Rogoberta Menchu (b1959) is a K’iche Guatemalan human rights activist, feminist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate. She has dedicated her life to publicizing the rights of Guatemala’s indigenous people. She founded the country’s first indigenous political party - Winaq.
She is the first Maya Indigenous woman to ever run in a Guatemalan election.

In 2007 and 2011 she was a candidate for the presidential election. She lost in the first round on both occasions but Winaq succeeded in becoming the first indigenous political party of Guatemala.