Lieutenant General Choummaly Sayasone – President of Laos
Until 1975, Laos harboured a monarchy, but Pathet Lao, the communist movement of Laos, saw off this silly hat wearing tradition giving way to a preference for sobre and sensible suits. It is perhaps symptomatic of subsequent government control that little is known about their President, Lieutenant General Choummaly Sayasone, besides the tedious biographical detail of his curriculum vitae.
For this reason, today’s World Leader in Underpants is something of an exclusive. In presenting Choummaly Sayasone thus undressed we offer you one of the most revealing portraits of the 5th president of the Lao People’s Democratic Republic available anywhere in the world. As ever, the rare exposure afforded to world leaders by joining their trouserless contemporaries ought to make the world stage a friendlier place, if at first a little awkward.
Lieutenant General Choummaly Sayasone now joins the elite throng of helpless humanity that is World Leader in Their Underpants here.
