A tribute to “JK”: the man, the president, the present

Abstract

JK government’s success is due to the great quality of his political insights, which allowed him to promote economic development along with democratic political stability, hedged by a liberal tolerance that allowed him to achieve his goals of democratic legitimacy. He created the newness from what already existed, well-tuned with the characteristics of his personality: he was a man of action, concerned with doing things, and at the same time a successful public planner; he was a modern man with a penchant for traditions, a cosmopolitan with small town peculiarities; an intuitive with diagnosis capacity that came together with his experience as a physician. He changed the country with political imagination, management imagination, talent, leadership, creativity.