Saudi Crown Prince Achieves Most Influential Arab Leader of 2023

Saudi Arabia – The Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman achieved the title of the most influential Arab leader of 2023, based on the results of an online vote conducted by the Arabis Service of Russia Today. 

"In the vote, which took place between December 15, 2023, and January 7, MBS got 366,403 votes, constituting 69.3 percent of the 530,399 total votes," the poll said, as quoted from Alarabiya site. 

This marks the third consecutive year that the Saudi leader has clinched the top position in the annual poll.

Taking the second spot in the rankings was UAE President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed, who received 95,033 votes, equivalent to 17.9 percent of the overall votes. 

Meanwhile, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas secured the third position with 20,645 votes, making up 3.9 percent of the participants’ votes.

In the previous year’s poll, MBS triumphed with over 7 million votes out of a total of nearly 12 million votes. 

Russian Today Arabic attributed the decline in the overall number of votes this year compared to the previous one to the “restrictions imposed by the West” on the channel and its social media accounts due to the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war.