Seven days is a very long time in politics. The final seven months have been cataclysmic.
When this picture was taken on April 25, the 5 world leaders posing for the cameras as they met to debate worldwide affairs appeared assured and guaranteed of their place on the planet.
However since then a dramatic populist revolt has devastated the outdated order that gathered in Hanover, Germany for talks marking the opening of a commerce honest.
Angela Merkel, centre, is the final chief standing on this picture after David Cameron, far left, and Italian prime minister Matteo Renzi, far proper, resigned, French President Francois Hollande, second proper, determined to not search reelection and Barack Obama, second left, has come to the tip of his second time period
Mr Renzi, pictured, turned the newest chief to give up over Europe yesterday after he was defeated in a referendum on constitutional reforms
David Cameron was the primary to fall, quitting as Prime Minister in June, the day after he was routed by the citizens within the Brexit vote.
Barack Obama will go away the White Home as deliberate subsequent month, however as a substitute of his hoped for successor Hillary Clinton changing him, it is going to be the person he described as 'woefully unprepared' for the US Presidency, proper wing populist Donald Trump.
And Francois Hollande final week turned the primary French president in current historical past to declare that he is not going to search a second time period of workplace.
The 62-year-old Socialist, by far probably the most unpopular French head of state for the reason that Second World Warfare, made his shock announcement after a ballot predicted he would win solely seven per cent of votes if he stood within the first spherical of Might's presidential election.
David Cameron equally resigned (pictured) after failing to guide the Stay marketing campaign to victory within the EU referendum in Britain
Democrat Barack Obama, proper, will finish his second time period as US President in just a few weeks and will probably be changed by Republican Donald Trump, left
Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi give up yesterday following a crushing defeat in his back-me-or-sack-me referendum on constitutional reform.
It was fuelled by anti-establishment motion surrounding his dealing with of the migrant disaster and the nation's financial meltdown.
There's a final lady standing, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, however she faces a troublesome problem to carry her place in elections subsequent September and October.
A populist opposition towards her is rising amid opposition to her open doorways coverage which led to the arrival of a couple of million migrants.
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