This piece was not "idolizing" her at all; her "impressive" status can be presumed to pertain merely to her having been a long-serving prime minister of a major

This piece was not "idolizing" her at all; her "impressive" status can be presumed to pertain merely to her having been a long-serving prime minister of a major country, and she was mentioned only for the purpose of countering an oft-repeated factoid about her.