Portrait of King Salman bin Abdulaziz SA flag

SA flag Saudi Arabia Head of state

King Salman bin Abdulaziz

الملك سلمان بن عبد العزيز
Head of state In government Verified

King of Saudi Arabia since 2015; head of the House of Saud. Formal head of state; day-to-day governance is largely run by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.

Country
Saudi Arabia
Party
Independent / unaligned
Role
Head of state

Individual position

Scored from King Salman bin Abdulaziz's own documents rather than inherited from a party — capturing where this figure diverges from the party line. Provisional, document-grounded estimate; see methodology.

King Salman bin Abdulaziz's spider profile
Economic → Market Social → Libertarian State & religion → Secular state Liberal democracy → Strong commitment West alignment → Pro-Western Regional stance → Stability/normalization Palestinian question → Pro-Palestinian rights Civil liberties → Expand Regime stance → pro-regime Pan-Arab vs particularist → pan-Arab Centralism vs federalism → federalist Traditionalism vs modernization → modernizing Gender equality → Gender equality Iran posture → Pro-Iran / aligned Press freedom → Free press
King Salman bin Abdulaziz
Axis scores

Source documents

Texts tied to this politician — speeches, interviews, op-eds. The scoring pipeline reads these when scoring positions against documents. All documents →

How to cite

Each record carries a retrieval date because the dataset is live — individual entries update as verification deepens. Use the per-record citation when referencing this specific profile; use the dataset citation below when referencing the project as a whole.

In-text: (Gara, 2026)

APA 7Reference list · academic default
Gara, T. (2026). King Salman bin Abdulaziz [Politician profile]. Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Retrieved June 21, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/king-salman
Chicago author-dateCommon in political-science journals
Gara, Tarek. 2026. "King Salman bin Abdulaziz." Politician profile, Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Accessed June 21, 2026. https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/king-salman.
BibTeXFor LaTeX / Zotero / reference managers
@misc{tayyar-king-salman,
  title     = {{King Salman bin Abdulaziz}},
  author    = {Gara, Tarek},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset},
  type      = {Politician profile},
  url       = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/king-salman},
  urldate   = {2026-06-21},
  note      = {First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.}
}

If you're citing Tayyar as a project rather than this individual record.

APA 7Preprint
Gara, T. (2026). Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset [Preprint]. Retrieved June 21, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper
BibTeXPreprint
@unpublished{tayyar-preprint,
  title  = {{Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset}},
  author = {Gara, Tarek},
  year   = {2026},
  type   = {Preprint},
  url    = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper},
  urldate = {2026-06-21},
  note   = {Living document, regenerated from the live dataset on page load.}
}

First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.