- 2002 in politics
Years in politics: 2000-2001-
2002 -2003-2004 -list of years in politics Events
January
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January 1 -Eduardo Duhalde is appointed President ofArgentina . He appointsJorge Capitanich as cabinet chief,Carlos Ruckauf as foreign minister;Felipe Solá becomes governor ofBuenos Aires .
*January 1-Safet Halilovic becomes President of theFederation of Bosnia and Herzegovina .
*January 1-Manuel Andrade Díaz takes office as governor ofTabasco .
*January 1-Kaspar Villiger becomes president ofSwitzerland ;Pascal Corminboeuf becomes president of the Council of State of Fribourg;Claudio Lardi president of the government ofGraubünden ;Anita Rion president of the government of Jura;Ulrich Fässler Schultheiss of Luzern;Herbert Bühl president of the government ofSchaffhausen ;Rolf Ritschard Landammann ofSolothurn ; andFrancine Jeanprêtre president of the Council of State ofVaud .
*January 1-Michael Bloomberg takes office as mayor ofNew York City .
*January 2 -Levy Mwanawasa takes office as president ofZambia ;Katele Kalumba becomes foreign minister.
*January 4 -Assad Shoman is sworn in as foreign minister ofBelize .
*January 6 -Mikhail Lapshin wins Presidential run-off election in theAltay Republic .
*January 7 -Michelle Bachelet is named defense minister ofChile , becoming the first woman inLatin America to hold the post.
*January 8 -Kristiina Ojuland becomes foreign minister ofEstonia .
*January 8-John J. Farmer Jr. becomes acting Governor ofNew Jersey , followed byJohn O. Bennett and thenRichard Codey until governor-electJim McGreevey is sworn in.
*January 10 -Enrique Bolaños takes office as president ofNicaragua ;Norman José Caldera Cardenal becomes foreign minister.
*January 12 -Mark Warner takes office as governor ofVirginia .
*January 13 - In the Presidential runoff inSakha ,Vyacheslav Shtyrov is elected.
*January 13-Diosdado Cabello is named executive vice-president ofVenezuela .
*January 14 -Juan N. Babauta takes office as governor of theNorthern Mariana Islands .
*January 15 -Bill Graham is named as foreign minister ofCanada .
*January 15-Pat Cox ofIreland is elected president of theEuropean Parliament .
*January 15-Vladimir Torlopov takes office as head of theKomi Republic .
*January 18 -P.S. Ramamohan Rao is sworn in as governor ofTamil Nadu .
*January 18-Natalya Partasova is confirmed as prime minister ofChuvashia .
*January 21 -Yu Shyi-kun is named Premier of Taiwan;Eugene Chien is appointed as foreign minister;Fan Kuang-chun as governor ofTaiwan Province .
*January 22 -Georgi Parvanov takes office as president ofBulgaria .
*January 27 -Ricardo Maduro takes office as president ofHonduras ;Guillermo Pérez Arias becomes foreign minister.
*January 28 -Imangali Tasmagambetov is appointed as the prime minister ofKazakhstan .February
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February 1 -Yoriko Kawaguchi is named Foreign Minister ofJapan .
*February 4 -Choi Sung Hong becomes foreign minister ofSouth Korea .
*February 8 -Semyon Nazarov becomes prime minister ofSakha .
*February 8-Hazret Medzhidovich Sovmen is sworn in as president ofAdygeya .
*February 13 -Amarinder Singh is sworn in as chief minister of Punjab.
*February 14 -Beriz Belkic becomes chairman of the Presidency ofBosnia and Herzegovina .
*February 15 -Angidi Chettiar becomes acting president ofMauritius who is soon replaced byAriranga Pillay , and finallyKarl Offmann .
*February 15-Lázaro Cárdenas Batel is sworn in as governor ofMichoacán
*February 19 -Mikhail Shatalov becomes prime minister ofNorth Ossetia-Alania
*February 22 -Marc Ravalomanana declares himself President ofMadagascar .March
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March 2 -Narain Dutt Tiwari is sworn in as chief minister ofUttaranchal .
*March 3 -Gabriel Costa 'sMovement for the Liberation of São Tomé and Príncipe wins parliamentary elections inSão Tomé and Príncipe , he would later become Prime Minister.
*March 4 -Yvon Neptune is designated Prime Minister ofHaiti .
*March 4-Ibrahim Rugova is elected President ofKosovo ;Bajram Rexhepi is appointed prime minister.
*March 5 -Mike Rann is sworn in as premier ofSouth Australia .
*March 6 -Nikolay Demchuk is approved as prime minister ofAdygeya .
*March 7 -James K. Bartleman takes office as lieutenant governor ofOntario .
*March 15 -Dragan Mikerevic is elected Prime Minister ofBosnia and Herzegovina .
*March 18 -Modibo Keita becomes Prime Minister ofMali .April
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April 1 -Antonio Lazzaro Volpinari andGiovanni Francesco Ugolini take office as captains-regent ofSan Marino .
*April 1- Hassan Muhammad Nur "Shatigadud " is sworn in as President ofSouthwestern Somalia .
*April 1-Ernst Hasler takes office as Landammann ofAargau .
*April 5 -Otto Roberto Mendonça de Alencar becomes governor ofBahia ;Benedita Souza da Silva Sampaio becomes governor ofRio de Janeiro .
*April 6 -José Manuel Durão Barroso is sworn in as prime minister ofPortugal ;António Martins da Cruz becomes foreign minister.
*April 8 -Alda Bandeira becomes Foreign Minister ofSão Tomé and Príncipe .
*April 11 -Sir John Vereker is sworn in as governor ofBermuda .
*April 12 -Pedro Carmona Estanga becomes president of the transitional government ofVenezuela .
*April 15 -Ernie Eves becomes premier ofOntario .
*April 18 -Georg Milbradt becomes minister-president of the German ofFree State of Saxony .
*April 23 -Charles-Louis Rochat becomes president of the Council of State ofVaud .
*April 28 -Nikolay Ashlapov becomes acting governor ofKrasnoyarsk .
*April 28-Bruno Koster is elected as Regierender Landammann ofAppenzell-Innerrhoden .May
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May 1 -Young Vivian is elected Prime Minister ofNiue .
*May 1-Thomas Burgener takes office as president of the Council of State ofValais ;Ernst Buschor takes office as president of the government of Zürich.
*May 2 -Perry Christie is elected Prime Minister ofThe Bahamas , selects Fred Mitchell as Foreign Minister.
*May 3 -Dahir Riyale Kahin becomes President ofSomaliland .
*May 5 - French Presidential elections,Jean-Pierre Raffarin named Prime Minister,Dominique de Villepin named Foreign Minister.
*May 5-Jakob Kamm is elected Landammann ofGlarus .
*May 8 -Abel Pacheco de la Espriella takes office as president ofCosta Rica ;Roberto Tovar Faja becomes foreign minister.
*May 9 - Acting governor installed in theCayman Islands to serve until the arrival ofBruce Dinwiddy .
*May 12 -Sergey Katanandov takes office as head of the republic of Karelia.
*May 13 -Marcel Ranjeva named Foreign Minister ofMadagascar .
*May 16 -Jean-Luc Harousseau becomes acting president of the Regional Council ofPays de la Loire .
*May 16-Wolfgang Böhmer takes office as minister-president of the German state ofSaxony-Anhalt .
*May 20 -Xanana Gusmão is sworn in as President ofEast Timor .
*May 21 -Patrizia Pesenti becomes president of the Council of State ofTicino .
*May 22 -Nikolay Tanayev is named acting Prime Minister ofKyrgyzstan
*May 23 -Murat Zyazikov is sworn in as president ofIngushetia .
*May 27 -Paddy Ashdown, Baron Ashdown , takes over as international high representative ofBosnia and Herzegovina .
*May 27-Péter Medgyessy is elected prime minister ofHungary ;László Kovács becomes foreign minister.
*May 29 -Petr Svec becomes acting mayor ofPrague .
*May 30 -Roy Chaderton is sworn in as foreign minister ofVenezuela .June
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June 1 -Elisabeth Zölch-Balmer becomes president of the government ofBern ;Pierre Hirschy becomes president of the Council of State ofNeuchâtel ;Hans Peter Ruprecht becomes president of the government ofThurgau ; andGabi Huber Landammann of Uri.
*June 3 -Etienne Ys becomes prime minister of theNetherlands Antilles .
*June 3-Piet Meyer is sworn in as acting premier ofWestern Cape , to be eventually replaced byMarthinus van Schalkwyk .
*June 7 - ThePakistan i Foreign Minister offers his resignation, and is eventually replaced byInam ul-Haq .
*June 7- Viktor Maslov takes office as head of the administration ofSmolensk Oblast .
*June 8 -Amadou Toumani Touré is sworn in as president ofMali . He eventually namesLassana Traoré Foreign Minister.
*June 10 -François Lonseny Fall is named foreign minister ofGuinea .
*June 12 -Mohlabi Tsekoa becomes foreign minister ofLesotho .
*June 14 -Askar Aitmatov becomes foreign minister ofKyrgyzstan .
*June 21 -Jamiruddin Sircar becomes acting President ofBangladesh .
*June 22 -Matthias Platzeck is sworn in as Minister-President ofBrandenburg .
*June 26 -Álvaro Silva Calderón ofVenezuela is elected Secretary-General ofOPEC .
*June 27 -Koffi Sama is named Prime Minister ofTogo .
*June 28 -Elisabeth Morin becomes president of the Regional Council ofPoitou-Charentes .July
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July 1 -Frits Goedgedrag takes office as governor of theNetherlands Antilles
*July 1-Elsbeth Schneider-Kenel becomes president of the government ofBasel-Land ;Leo Odermatt becomes Landammann ofNidwalden ;Hans Hofer becomes Landammann ofObwalden ;Peter Schönenberger becomes Landammann ofSankt Gallen , andFriedrich Huwyler becomes Landammann ofSchwyz .
*July 4 -Jan Peter Balkenende is asked to form a new government as Prime Minister of theNetherlands ; he will selectJaap de Hoop Scheffer as foreign minister, andJohan Remkes as interior minister.
*July 6 -M. Rama Jois is named as governor ofJharkhand .
*July 9 - The governor ofMaharashtra resigns, he will eventually be replaced byC.K. Thakkar .
*July 9- Members of thePeru vian cabinet resign, and are eventually replaced byLuis Solari as prime minister andAllan Wagner Tizón as foreign minister.
*July 9-Ana Palacios is named foreign minister ofSpain .
*July 11 -Chang Sang is named Prime Minister ofSouth Korea .
*July 11- The Foreign Minister of Turkey resigns. He is to be replaced byŞükrü Sina Gürel .
*July 12 -Vladimír Spidla is appointed as prime minister of theCzech Republic .Cyril Svoboda will become Foreign Minister.
*July 15 -Igor Nemec is elected mayor ofPraha .
*July 18 -A.P.J. Abdul Kalam is elected president ofIndia .
*July 22 -K.R. Malkani is appointed as lieutenant governor ofPondicherry .
*July 24 -Alfred Moisiu takes office as President ofAlbania .August
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August 2 -Saufatu Sopoanga is elected prime minister ofTuvalu by Parliament.
*August 4 - Congress choosesGonzalo Sánchez de Lozada as president ofBolivia .
*August 5 - Parliament elects SirMichael Somare as prime minister ofPapua New Guinea .
*August 7 -Álvaro Uribe Vélez is sworn in as president ofColombia ;Carolina Barco is sworn in as foreign minister.
*August 9 -Chang Dae Whan is named Prime Minister ofSouth Korea .
*August 14 -Lyonpo Kinzang Dorji becomes prime minister ofBhutan .
*August 26 -Viktor Aleksentsev is appointed acting Prime Minister ofIngushetia .
*August 28 -Theo-Ben Gurirab becomes Prime Minister ofNamibia .eptember
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September 1 -Supachai Panitchpakdi ofThailand becomes director-general of theWTO .
*September 2 -Ange Mancini takes office as prefect ofFrench Guiana .
*September 5 -Iajuddin Ahmed is declared President-elect ofBangladesh .
*September 10 -Kim Suk Soo is named Prime Minister ofSouth Korea .
*September 15 - The Swedish parliamentary election leaves Prime MinisterGöran Persson and the Social Democrats in power.
*September 30 -Lena Hjelm-Wallén is named defense minister ofSweden .October
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October 1 -Giuseppe Maria Morganti andMauro Chiaruzzi are installed as Captains-regent ofSan Marino .
*October 3 -Aleksandr Khloponin is named acting governor ofKrasnoyarsk .
*October 3-Maria das Neves is named Prime Minister ofSão Tomé and Príncipe .
*October 4 - The King ofNepal would abolish his council of ministers, and would later hireLokendra Bahadur Chand as Prime Minister.
*October 5 - Elections are held inBosnia and Herzegovina .Dragan Covic ,Mirko Sarovic , andSulejman Tihic elected to the three seat presidency for theCroats , theSerbs , and theMuslim seats respectively.
*October 9 -Driss Jettou is appointed Prime Minister ofMorocco .
*October 12 - The first Rodrigues Regional Assembly opens inMauritius .Claude Wong So would later be appointed as chief executive.
*October 14 -Tom Macan is sworn in as Governor of theBritish Virgin Islands .
*October 18 -Nikolay Dudov becomes acting governor ofMagadan .November
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November 1 -Edward Roberts is sworn in as lieutenant governor ofNewfoundland and Labrador .
*November 1-Branko Crvenkovski is elected Prime Minister of theRepublic of Macedonia .
*November 2 -Mufti Mohammad Sayeed takes office as chief minister ofJammu and Kashmir in "Indian-held Kashmir".
*November 3 - Parliamentary elections are held inTurkey .Abdullah Gül would later become Prime Minister,Yasar Yakis Foreign Minister.
*November 4 -Dennis Fentie is elected Premier of theYukon .
*November 4-Idrissa Seck is appointed Prime Minister ofSenegal .
*November 5 -Einars Repše is nominated for Prime Minister ofLatvia , and is named Prime Minister 2 days later,Sandra Kalniete becomes Foreign Minister.
*November 5 - The Republicans regain control of the Senate and expand their majority in the US House in midterm elections.
*November 6 -Peer Steinbrück is elected minister-president ofNorth Rhine-Westphalia .
*November 7 -Mikhail Babich is appointed Prime Minister ofChechnya
*November 14 -Franco Frattini is appointed foreign minister ofItaly .
*November 15 -Hu Jintao is appointed general secretary of theCommunist Party of China .
*November 16 -Viktor Yanukovych is asked to be Prime Minister ofUkraine
*November 21 -Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali is elected Prime Minister ofPakistan . He would later nameKhurshid Mahmood Kasuri as Foreign Minister.
*November 28 -Pavel Bem is elected mayor ofPraha .December
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December 1 - Presidential elections are held inSlovenia ;Anton Rop is named Prime Minister the next day.
*December 1-Laurent Moutinot becomes president of the Council of State ofGenève .
*December 2 -Frank Murkowski takes office as governor ofAlaska ;Linda Lingle takes office as governor ofHawaii .
*December 3 -Howard Pearce takes office as governor of theFalkland Islands .
*December 3- Elections are held inGreenland ,Hans Enoksen would later be sworn in as Prime Minister.
*December 5 -Fernando da Piedade Dias dos Santos is named Prime Minister ofAngola .
*December 8 - Elections inSerbia fail to receive 50% of the popular vote, making them invalid.Natasa Micic becomes acting President.
*December 16 -Jim Poston is sworn in as governor of theTurks and Caicos Islands .
*December 20 -Adnan Terzic is designated prime minister ofBosnia and Herzegovina .
*December 27 -Mwai Kibaki wins Presidential elections inKenya .
*December 27-Ishratul Ibad takes office as governor ofSindh .Deaths
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January 6 - Former prime minister ofThailand ,Sanya Thammasak .
*January 19 - Former prime minister ofFinland ,Martti Miettunen .
*February 4 - Former president ofMalta ,Agatha Barbara .
*February 8 - Former president ofSingapore ,Ong Teng Cheong .
*March 8 - Former prime minister and chairman of the Presidential Council ofBenin ,Justin Ahomadegbé .
*March 12 - Former president ofCyprus ,Spyros Kyprianou .
*March 22 - Former governor-general ofPapua New Guinea , SirKingsford Dibela .
*April 16 - Former president ofGuatemala ,Ramiro de León Carpio .
*May 5 - Former president ofBolivia ,Hugo Banzer Suárez .
*May 5- Former president ofDominica , SirClarence Augustus Seignoret .
*May 19 - Former prime minister ofAustralia , SirJohn Grey Gorton .
*June 4 - Former president ofPeru ,Fernando Belaúnde Terry .
*June 24 - Former prime minister ofLuxembourg ,Pierre Werner .
*July 13 - Former prime minister and foreign minister ofPeru ,Guillermo Larco Cox .
*July 14 - Former president of theDominican Republic ,Joaquín Balaguer .
*July 22 - Former prime minister and foreign minister ofPeru ,Fernando Schwalb López Aldana .
*August 30 - Former prime minister ofJordan ,Sharif Zaid ibn Shaker .
*September 8 - Former President ofSwitzerland ,Georges-André Chevallaz .
*September 30 - Former President ofSwitzerland ,Hans Peter Tschudi .
*October 31 - Former President ofGreece ,Michail Stasinopoulos .
*December 5 - Former Prime Minister ofMyanmar ,Ne Win .
*December 22 - Former President ofGuyana ,Desmond Hoyte .
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