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A question that is asked far to seldom is what it means to be a good leader. The answer is not all that simple. It is a comlex and multi-faceted question that varies between the values and what ethical perspective you choose to have. As the title indicates, this essay has one particular ethical-theoretical perspective in focus, virtue ethics. According to the virtue ethics perspective a good political leader is a virtuous leader. And a virtuous leader is a virtuous human being. It is the virtue ethics of the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle that is the theoretical framework in this essay. With this framework and with the help of four classical cardinal virtues I discuss the virtuous political leadership of today, or rather the lack of it. And the desire, or even the need of, virtues in the modern political leadership to help restore the ...