2002 in politics

Years in politics :	1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005
Centuries :	20th century · 21st century · 22nd century
Decades :	1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s 2030s
Years :	1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005

These are some of the notable events relating to politics in 2002.

Events [ edit ]

January [ edit ]

January 1- Eduardo Duhalde is appointed President of Argentina . ^[1] He appoints Jorge Capitanich as cabinet chief, Carlos Ruckauf as foreign minister; Felipe Sola becomes governor of Buenos Aires .
January 1- Safet Halilovi? becomes President of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina .
January 1- Manuel Andrade Diaz takes office as governor of Tabasco . ^[2]
January 1- Kaspar Villiger becomes president of Switzerland ; Pascal Corminboeuf becomes president of the Council of State of Fribourg ; Claudio Lardi president of the government of Graubunden ; Anita Rion president of the government of Jura ; Ulrich Fassler Schultheiss of Luzern; Herbert Buhl president of the government of Schaffhausen ; Rolf Ritschard Landammann of Solothurn ; and Francine Jeanpretre president of the Council of State of Vaud .
January 1- Michael Bloomberg takes office as mayor of New York City. ^[3]
January 2- Levy Mwanawasa takes office as president of Zambia ; Katele Kalumba becomes foreign minister.
January 4- Assad Shoman is sworn in as foreign minister of Belize .
January 6- Mikhail Lapshin wins Presidential run-off election in the Altai Republic .
January 7- Michelle Bachelet is named defense minister of Chile , becoming the first woman in Latin America to hold the post.
January 8- Kristiina Ojuland becomes foreign minister of Estonia .
January 8- John Farmer, Jr. becomes acting Governor of New Jersey , followed by John O. Bennett and then Richard Codey until governor-elect Jim McGreevey is sworn in.
January 10- Enrique Bolanos takes office as president of Nicaragua ; Norman Jose Caldera Cardenal becomes foreign minister.
January 12- Mark Warner takes office as governor of Virginia . ^[4]
January 13- In the Presidential runoff in Sakha , Vyacheslav Shtyrov is elected.
January 13- Diosdado Cabello is named executive vice-president of Venezuela .
January 14- Juan Babauta takes office as governor of the Northern Mariana Islands .
January 15- Bill Graham is named as foreign minister of Canada .
January 15- Pat Cox of Ireland is elected president of the European Parliament .
January 15- Vladimir Torlopov takes office as head of the Komi Republic .
January 18- P. S. Ramamohan Rao is sworn in as governor of Tamil Nadu .
January 18- Natalya Partasova is confirmed as prime minister of Chuvashia .
January 21- Yu Shyi-kun is named Premier of Taiwan ; Eugene Chien is appointed as foreign minister; Fan Kuang-chun as governor of Taiwan Province .
January 22- Georgi Parvanov takes office as president of Bulgaria .
January 27- Ricardo Maduro takes office as president of Honduras ; Guillermo Perez Arias becomes foreign minister.
January 28- Imangali Tasmagambetov is appointed as the prime minister of Kazakhstan .

February [ edit ]

February 1- Yoriko Kawaguchi is named Foreign Minister of Japan .
February 4- Choi Sung Hong becomes foreign minister of South Korea .
February 8- Semyon Nazarov becomes prime minister of Sakha .
February 8- Hazret Medzhidovich Sovmen is sworn in as president of Adygea .
February 13- Amarinder Singh is sworn in as chief minister of Punjab .
February 14- Beriz Belki? becomes chairman of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina .
February 15- Angidi Chettiar becomes acting president of Mauritius who is soon replaced by Ariranga Pillay , and finally Karl Offmann .
February 15- Lazaro Cardenas Batel is sworn in as governor of Michoacan
February 19- Mikhail Shatalov becomes prime minister of North Ossetia?Alania
February 22- Marc Ravalomanana declares himself President of Madagascar .

March [ edit ]

March 2- Narain Dutt Tiwari is sworn in as chief minister of Uttaranchal, now known as Uttarakhand .
March 3- Gabriel Costa 's Movement for the Liberation of Sao Tome and Principe wins parliamentary elections in Sao Tome and Principe , he would later become Prime Minister.
March 4- Yvon Neptune is designated Prime Minister of Haiti .
March 4- Ibrahim Rugova is elected President of Kosovo ; Bajram Rexhepi is appointed prime minister.
March 5- Mike Rann is sworn in as premier of South Australia .
March 6- Nikolay Demchuk is approved as prime minister of Adygeya .
March 7- James Bartleman takes office as lieutenant governor of Ontario .
March 15- Dragan Mikerevi? is elected Prime Minister of Bosnia and Herzegovina .
March 18- Modibo Keita (born 1942) becomes Prime Minister of Mali .

April [ edit ]

April 1- Antonio Lazzaro Volpinari and Giovanni Francesco Ugolini take office as captains-regent of San Marino .
April 1- Hassan Muhammad Nur " Shatigadud " is sworn in as President of Southwestern Somalia .
April 1- Ernst Hasler takes office as Landammann of Aargau .
April 5- Otto Roberto Mendonca de Alencar becomes governor of Bahia ; Benedita Souza da Silva Sampaio becomes governor of Rio de Janeiro .
April 6- Jose Manuel Durao Barroso is sworn in as prime minister of Portugal ; Antonio Martins da Cruz becomes foreign minister.
April 8- Alda Bandeira becomes Foreign Minister of Sao Tome and Principe .
April 11- Sir John Vereker is sworn in as governor of Bermuda .
April 12- Pedro Carmona Estanga becomes president of the transitional government of Venezuela .
April 15- Ernie Eves becomes premier of Ontario .
April 18- Georg Milbradt becomes minister-president of the German of Free State of Saxony .
April 23- Charles-Louis Rochat becomes president of the Council of State of Vaud .
April 28- Nikolay Ashlapov becomes acting governor of Krasnoyarsk .
April 28- Bruno Koster is elected as Regierender Landammann of Appenzell-Innerrhoden .

May [ edit ]

May 1- Young Vivian is elected Prime Minister of Niue .
May 1- Thomas Burgener takes office as president of the Council of State of Valais ; Ernst Buschor takes office as president of the government of Zurich .
May 2- Perry Christie is elected Prime Minister of The Bahamas , selects Fred Mitchell as Foreign Minister.
May 3- Dahir Riyale Kahin becomes President of Somaliland .
May 5- French Presidential elections, Jean-Pierre Raffarin named Prime Minister, Dominique de Villepin named Foreign Minister.
May 5- Jakob Kamm is elected Landammann of Glarus .
May 8- Abel Pacheco de la Espriella takes office as president of Costa Rica ; Roberto Tovar Faja becomes foreign minister.
May 9- Acting governor installed in the Cayman Islands to serve until the arrival of Bruce Dinwiddy .
May 12- Sergey Katanandov takes office as head of the republic of Karelia .
May 13- Marcel Ranjeva named Foreign Minister of Madagascar .
May 16- Jean-Luc Harousseau becomes acting president of the Regional Council of Pays de la Loire .
May 16- Wolfgang Bohmer takes office as minister-president of the German state of Saxony-Anhalt .
May 20- Xanana Gusmao is sworn in as President of East Timor .
May 21- Patrizia Pesenti becomes president of the Council of State of Ticino .
May 22- Nikolay Tanayev is named acting Prime Minister of Kyrgyzstan
May 23- Murat Zyazikov is sworn in as president of Ingushetia .
May 27- Paddy Ashdown, Baron Ashdown , takes over as international high representative of Bosnia and Herzegovina .
May 27- Peter Medgyessy is elected prime minister of Hungary ; Laszlo Kovacs becomes foreign minister.
May 29- Petr ?vec becomes acting mayor of Prague .
May 30- Roy Chaderton is sworn in as foreign minister of Venezuela .

June [ edit ]

June 1- Elisabeth Zolch-Balmer becomes president of the government of Bern ; Pierre Hirschy becomes president of the Council of State of Neuchatel ; Hans Peter Ruprecht becomes president of the government of Thurgau ; and Gabi Huber Landammann of Uri .
June 3- Etienne Ys becomes prime minister of the Netherlands Antilles .
June 3- Piet Meyer is sworn in as acting premier of Western Cape , to be eventually replaced by Marthinus van Schalkwyk .
June 7- The Pakistani Foreign Minister offers his resignation, and is eventually replaced by Inam ul-Haq .
June 7- Viktor Maslov takes office as head of the administration of Smolensk Oblast .
June 8- Amadou Toumani Toure is sworn in as president of Mali . He eventually names Lassana Traore Foreign Minister.
June 10- Francois Lonseny Fall is named foreign minister of Guinea .
June 12- Mohlabi Tsekoa becomes foreign minister of Lesotho .
June 14- Askar Aitmatov becomes foreign minister of Kyrgyzstan .
June 21- Jamiruddin Sircar becomes acting President of Bangladesh .
June 22- Matthias Platzeck is sworn in as Minister-President of Brandenburg .
June 26- Alvaro Silva Calderon of Venezuela is elected Secretary-General of OPEC .
June 27- Koffi Sama is named Prime Minister of Togo .
June 28- Elisabeth Morin becomes president of the Regional Council of Poitou-Charentes .

July [ edit ]

July 1- Frits Goedgedrag takes office as governor of the Netherlands Antilles
July 1- Elsbeth Schneider-Kenel becomes president of the government of Basel-Land ; Leo Odermatt becomes Landammann of Nidwalden ; Hans Hofer becomes Landammann of Obwalden ; Peter Schonenberger becomes Landammann of Sankt Gallen , and Friedrich Huwyler becomes Landammann of Schwyz .
July 4- Jan Peter Balkenende is asked to form a new government as Prime Minister of the Netherlands ; he will select Jaap de Hoop Scheffer as foreign minister, and Johan Remkes as interior minister.
July 6- Rama Jois is named as governor of Jharkhand .
July 9- The governor of Maharashtra resigns, he will eventually be replaced by C K Thakkar .
July 9- Members of the Peruvian cabinet resign, and are eventually replaced by Luis Solari as prime minister and Allan Wagner Tizon as foreign minister.
July 9- Ana Palacios is named foreign minister of Spain.
July 11- Chang Sang is named Prime Minister of South Korea.
July 11- The Foreign Minister of Turkey resigns. He is to be replaced by ?ukru Sina Gurel .
July 12- Vladimir ?pidla is appointed as prime minister of the Czech Republic . Cyril Svoboda will become Foreign Minister.
July 15- Igor Nemec is elected mayor of Prague .
July 18- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam is elected president of India.
July 22- K. R. Malkani is appointed as lieutenant governor of Puducherry .
July 24- Alfred Moisiu takes office as President of Albania .
July 24- James Traficant was expelled from the United States House of Representatives after being convicted of ten felony counts.
July 27- New Zealand holds a general election, which Helen Clark 's left-wing Labour Party wins, in coalition with the Progressive Party and confidence and supply from the United Future Party .

August [ edit ]

August 2- Saufatu Sopoanga is elected prime minister of Tuvalu by Parliament.
August 4- Congress chooses Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada as president of Bolivia .
August 5- Parliament elects Sir Michael Somare as prime minister of Papua New Guinea .
August 7- Alvaro Uribe Velez is sworn in as president of Colombia ; Carolina Barco is sworn in as foreign minister.
August 9- Chang Dae Whan is named Prime Minister of South Korea .
August 14- Lyonpo Kinzang Dorji becomes prime minister of Bhutan .
August 26- Viktor Aleksentsev is appointed acting Prime Minister of Ingushetia .
August 28- Theo-Ben Gurirab becomes Prime Minister of Namibia .

September [ edit ]

September 1- Supachai Panitchpakdi of Thailand becomes director-general of the WTO .
September 2- Ange Mancini takes office as prefect of French Guiana .
September 5- Iajuddin Ahmed is declared President-elect of Bangladesh .
September 10- Kim Suk Soo is named Prime Minister of South Korea .
September 15 - The Swedish general election leaves Prime Minister Goran Persson and the Social Democrats in power.
September 30- Lena Hjelm-Wallen is named defense minister of Sweden .

October [ edit ]

October 1- Giuseppe Maria Morganti and Mauro Chiaruzzi are installed as Captains-regent of San Marino .
October 3- Aleksandr Khloponin is named acting governor of Krasnoyarsk .
October 3- Maria das Neves is named Prime Minister of Sao Tome and Principe .
October 4- The King of Nepal would abolish his council of ministers, and would later hire Lokendra Bahadur Chand as Prime Minister.
October 5- Elections are held in Bosnia and Herzegovina . Dragan ?ovi? , Mirko ?arovi? , and Sulejman Tihi? elected to the three seat presidency for the Croats , the Serbs , and the Muslim seats respectively.
October 9- Driss Jettou is appointed Prime Minister of Morocco .
October 12- The first Rodrigues Regional Assembly opens in Mauritius . Claude Wong So would later be appointed as chief executive.
October 14- Tom Macan is sworn in as Governor of the British Virgin Islands .
October 18- Nikolay Dudov becomes acting governor of Magadan .

November [ edit ]

November 1- Edward Roberts is sworn in as lieutenant governor of Newfoundland and Labrador .
November 1- Branko Crvenkovski is elected Prime Minister of the Republic of Macedonia .
November 2- Mufti Mohammad Sayeed takes office as chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir in Indian-held Kashmir .
November 3- Parliamentary elections are held in Turkey . Abdullah Gul would later become Prime Minister, Ya?ar Yakı? Foreign Minister.
November 4- Dennis Fentie is elected Premier of the Yukon .
November 4- Idrissa Seck is appointed Prime Minister of Senegal .
November 5- Einars Rep?e is nominated for Prime Minister of Latvia , 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 Steinbruck is elected minister-president of North Rhine-Westphalia .
November 7- Mikhail Babich is appointed Prime Minister of Chechnya
November 14- Franco Frattini is appointed foreign minister of Italy .
November 15- Hu Jintao is appointed general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party .
November 16- Viktor Yanukovych is asked to be Prime Minister of Ukraine
November 21- Zafarullah Khan Jamali is elected Prime Minister of Pakistan . He would later name Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri as Foreign Minister.
November 28- Pavel Bem is elected mayor of Praha .

December [ edit ]

December 1- Presidential elections are held in Slovenia ; Anton Rop is named Prime Minister the next day.
December 1- Laurent Moutinot becomes president of the Council of State of Geneve .
December 2- Frank Murkowski takes office as governor of Alaska ; Linda Lingle takes office as governor of Hawaii .
December 3- Howard Pearce takes office as governor of the Falkland Islands .
December 3- Elections are held in Greenland , Hans Enoksen would later be sworn in as Prime Minister.
December 5- Fernando da Piedade Dias dos Santos is named Prime Minister of Angola .
December 8- Elections in Serbia fail to receive 50% of the popular vote, making them invalid. Nata?a Mi?i? becomes acting president.
December 16- Jim Poston is sworn in as governor of the Turks and Caicos Islands .
December 20- Adnan Terzi? is designated prime minister of Bosnia and Herzegovina .
December 27- Mwai Kibaki wins Presidential elections in Kenya .
December 27- Ishratul Ibad takes office as governor of Sindh .
December 30- Mwai Kibaki sworn in as president of Kenya

Deaths [ edit ]

January 6- Former prime minister of Thailand, Sanya Thammasak .
January 19- Former prime minister of Finland, Martti Miettunen .
February 4- Former president of Malta, Agatha Barbara .
February 8- Former president of Singapore, Ong Teng Cheong .
March 8- Former prime minister and chairman of the Presidential Council of Benin, Justin Ahomadegbe .
March 12- Former president of Cyprus, Spyros Kyprianou .
March 22- Former governor-general of Papua New Guinea, Sir Kingsford Dibela .
April 16- Former president of Guatemala, Ramiro de Leon Carpio .
May 5- Former president of Bolivia, Hugo Banzer Suarez .
May 5- Former president of Dominica, Sir Clarence Augustus Seignoret .
May 19- Former prime minister of Australia, Sir John Grey Gorton .
June 4- Former president of Peru, Fernando Belaunde Terry .
June 24- Former prime minister of Luxembourg, Pierre Werner .
July 13- Former prime minister and foreign minister of Peru, Guillermo Larco Cox .
July 14- Former president of the Dominican Republic, Joaquin Balaguer .
July 22- Former prime minister and foreign minister of Peru, Fernando Schwalb Lopez Aldana .
August 30- Former prime minister of Jordan, Sharif Zaid Ibn Shaker .
September 8- Former president of Switzerland, Georges-Andre Chevallaz .
September 30- Former president of Switzerland, Hans-Peter Tschudi .
October 31- Former president of Greece, Michail Stasinopoulos .
December 5- Former prime minister of Myanmar, Ne Win .
December 22- Former president of Guyana, Desmond Hoyte .

References [ edit ]

^ "GALERIA DE PRESIDENTES" . 2020-11-16. Archived from the original on 2020-11-16 . Retrieved 2023-11-29 .
^ Grayson, George W. (2007). Mexican messiah: Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador . University Park, Pa: Pennsylvania State Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0-271-03262-7 .
^ Steinhauer, Jennifer (2002-01-01). "THE MAYORAL TRANSITION: OVERVIEW; Bloomberg Takes Oath as 108th Mayor of New York" . The New York Times . ISSN 0362-4331 . Retrieved 2023-11-28 .
^ "Warner inaugurated January 12" . Richmond Times-Dispatch . 2002-01-13. pp. A1 . Retrieved 2023-11-28 .

[1] "GALERIA DE PRESIDENTES" . 2020-11-16. Archived from the original on 2020-11-16 . Retrieved 2023-11-29 .

[2] Grayson, George W. (2007). Mexican messiah: Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador . University Park, Pa: Pennsylvania State Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0-271-03262-7 .

[3] Steinhauer, Jennifer (2002-01-01). "THE MAYORAL TRANSITION: OVERVIEW; Bloomberg Takes Oath as 108th Mayor of New York" . The New York Times . ISSN 0362-4331 . Retrieved 2023-11-28 .

[4] "Warner inaugurated January 12" . Richmond Times-Dispatch . 2002-01-13. pp. A1 . Retrieved 2023-11-28 .

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Years in politics :	1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005
Centuries :	20th century · 21st century · 22nd century
Decades :	1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s 2030s
Years :	1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005