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When BetOnline first launched its Next Leader to Exit betting odds a few years back, the likes of Russian President Vladimir Putin, Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu were all listed with relatively short odds.
Today, each of those leaders are still going strong.
Few had on their bingo cards German Chancellor Olaf Scholz or Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
And it's not just democratic leaders that are being sent packing. This month we witnessed what seemed unfathomable just weeks ago, the collapse of Bashar al-Assad's decades long rule in Syria.
Trudeau faced the biggest test of his political career after Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland, long one of his most powerful and loyal ministers, resigned from the Cabinet on Monday.
The stunning move raised questions about how much longer the prime minister of nearly 10 years — whose popularity has plummeted due to concerns about inflation and immigration — can stay on as his administration scrambles to deal with incoming U.S. President-elect Donald Trump.
Trudeau swiftly named longtime ally and close friend Dominic LeBlanc, the pubic safety minister who recently joined him at dinner with Trump at Mar-a-Lago, to replace Freeland.
After being sworn in, LeBlanc told reporters he and Trudeau are focused on the cost of living facing Canadians and on finding common ground with Trump on border security and economic issues.
The gambling markets are backing Trudeau's exit prior to April at 70 percent.
Remarkably, a quarter of those at Polymarket believe he will resign by this coming Friday.
