| URSULA | ___ von der Leyen, German politician elected President of the European Commission in 2019 (6) |
| CORNISHPASTY | A small pie filled with meat and vegetables, given protected status by the European Commission in 2011 (7,5) |
| RUTO | William, Kenyan politician elected president in 2022 (4) |
| PERON | Juan (1895-1974), Argentine general and politician, elected President three times (5) |
| CASSON | Director of architecture at the Festival of Britain who was elected president of the Royal Academy in 1976 and illustrated the Prince of Wales' The Old Man of Lochnagar (6) |
| MEMBER | - of Parliament; any one of 650 politicians elected to serve in the House of Commons (6) |
| DELORS | Jacques ---, French politician and former President of the European Commission (6) |
| SARWAR | Anas, politician elected leader of the Scottish Labour Party in 2021 (6) |
| RUDOLF | German politician and Nazi leader sentenced to life imprisonment by the international tribunal in Nuremberg in 1946 (6,4) |
| SANTER | Jacques --, President of the European Commission from 1995 to 1999 (6) |
| MELONI | Giorgia, Italian politician elected Prime Minister of her country in 2022 (6) |
| KARZAI | In 2004 he became the first elected president of Afghanistan |
| MADURO | Recently re-elected president of Venezuela in disputed circumstances (6) |
| ANGELA | --- Merkel, former German politician (6) |
| DWELT | Remained in the world of von der Leyen? That is out! (5) |
| BRANDT | Mark time as German politician |
| KENNEDY | Surname of the youngest person to be elected President of the United States (7) |
| SEBASTIANCOE | Former middle-distance runner elected president of the International Association of Athletics Federations in 2015 |
| TOPSECRET | Violent protest about von der Leyen etc being privileged (3-6) |
| BANKS | Joseph ?, British explorer and naturalist elected president of the Royal Society in 1778 (5) |
