2004 in politics

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Contents 1 Events 1.1 January 1.2 February 1.3 March 1.4 April 1.5 May 1.6 June 1.7 July 1.8 August 1.9 September 1.10 October 1.11 November 1.12 December 2 Deaths 3 See also 4 External link

Events

January

• January 1- Adnan Pachachi becomes president of the Iraq Interim Governing Council and will serve for the duration of the month.
• January 1- Joseph Deiss takes office as President of the Confederation in Switzerland, Samuel Schmid as vice-president.
• January 4- Texas Congressman Ralph Hall switches to the Republicans. Hall had been a Democrat.
• January 4- Mikhail Saakashvili is elected as President of Georgia.
• January 6- 2000 Democratic Presidential Candidate Bill Bradley endorses fellow Democrat Howard Dean for President.
• January 8- Gavin Newsom is sworn in as Mayor of San Francisco.
• January 8- Roosevelt Skerrit is sworn in as Prime Minister of Dominica following the death of Pierre Charles on January 6.
• January 12- Kathleen Babineaux Blanco is sworn in as Governor of Louisiana.
• January 13- Haley Barbour is sworn in as Governor of Mississippi.
• January 13- Howard Dean wins a non-binding primary in Washington, DC with 43% of the vote. Al Sharpton comes in second with 34% of the vote.
• January 13- Former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill contributes to a book that claims that George W. Bush wanted to attack Iraq since January 2001 and not after the September 11th terrorist attacks as had been believed.
• January 13- The President of Northern Cyprus approves a new cabinet headed by Mehmet Ali Talat.
• January 14- Óscar Berger Perdomo is inaugurated as President of Guatemala. Eduardo Stein Barillas becomes vice president and Jorge Briz Abularach becomes foreign minister.
• January 14- Madan Lal Khurana is sworn in as governor of Rajasthan.
• January 14- Nikolay Shaklein is sworn in as governor of Kirov.
• January 15- Carol Moseley Braun drops out of the 2004 Presidential race and endorses Howard Dean.
• January 16- Ban Ki Moon is named foreign minister of South Korea.
• January 19- The Iowa Caucuses are held. John Kerry wins with 38%. John Edwards comes second with 32%. Howard Dean comes in third with 18%. Richard A. "Dick" Gephardt comes in fourth with 11%.
• January 20- Richard Gephardt quits the 2004 Presidential race after a poor showing in the Iowa Caucuses.
• January 20- Bill Janklow's resignation from Congress takes effect. Janklow had been convicted of a felony in December 2003.
• January 25- Mikhail Saakashvili is sworn in as President of Georgia.
• January 27- John Kerry wins the New Hampshire Primary with 38% of the vote. Howard Dean gets 26% of the vote.
• January 27 - Don Brash Speech Orewa Rotary Club on Nationhood against Maori racial separatism in New Zealand
• January 27 - A House of Commons vote on University tuition top-up fees is narrowly won by the British Government. It is, however, the worst voting result for Tony Blair since he came to power in 1997.

February

• February 1- Jörg Schild becomes president of the government of Basel-Stadt.
• February 3- John Edwards wins a primary in South Carolina with 46% of the vote. Wesley Clark wins the Oklahoma primary with 30% of the vote. John Kerry wins primaries and caucuses in Arizona with 43% of the vote, Delaware with 50% of the vote, Missouri with 51% of the vote, New Mexico with 42% of the vote, and North Dakota with 50% of the vote.
• February 3- Joe Lieberman quits the Presidential race after poor results in primaries and caucuses in South Carolina, Oklahoma, Arizona, Delaware, Missouri, North Dakota, and New Mexico.
• February 3- Jóannes Eidesgaard becomes prime minister of the Faroe Islands.
• February 4- Andrei Stratan is appointed foreign minister of Moldova.
• February 4- Dragan Marsicanin becomes acting president of Serbia.
• February 6- Richard Gephardt endorses John Kerry for President.
• February 7- John Kerry wins a primary in Michigan with 52% of the vote. Kerry also wins the Washington primary with 49% of the vote.
• February 7 - Peter Beattie (of the Australian Labor Party) wins a 3rd term as Premier of Queensland, again winning over two-thirds of the seats.
• February 8- John Kerry wins the Maine Caucuses with 45% of the vote.
• February 10- John Kerry wins primaries in Tennessee and Virginia with 41% and 52% of the vote, respectfully.
• February 11- Wesley Clark quits the quits the Presidential race after poor results in the Virginia and Tennessee primaries.
• February 13- Wesley Clark endorses John Kerry.
• February 13- Jesús Pérez is sworn in as foreign minister of Venezuela.
• February 13- Tassos Giannitsis is sworn in as caretaker foreign minister of Greece.
• February 14- John Kerry wins a caucus in Washington, DC with 47% of the vote. Kerry wins the Nevada caucus with 63% of state party delegates.
• February 17- Democrat Ben Chandler defeats Republican Alice Forgy Kerr in a Congressional special election in Kentucky with 55% of the vote compared to Forgy Kerr's 43%.
• February 17- John Kerry wins 40% of the vote in the Wisconsin primary.
• February 17- Luisa Diogo is named prime minister of Mozambique.
• February 18- Howard Dean quits the Presidential race after a poor showing in Wisconsin.
• February 18- Jacques Simonet is sworn in as minister-president of Brussels-Capital.
• February 21- Ralph Nader enters the Presidential race as an Independent.
• February 23- Paul Lennon becomes acting premier of Tasmania.
• February 23- Mamady Condé is named foreign minister of Guinea.
• February 23- Josep Bargalló Valls takes office as chief councillor of Catalonia.
• February 24- Viktor Khristenko is named acting prime minister of Russia.
• February 26- Ljupco Jordanovski becomes acting president of Republic of Macedonia.
• February 28- Sulejman Tihic becomes chairman of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
• February 29- Boniface Alexandre is sworn in as provisional president of Haiti.

March

• March 2 - "Super Tuesday" U.S. presidential primaries or caucuses take place in California, Connecticut, Georgia, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Rhode Island and Vermont. John Kerry wins in 9 states, and a dejected John Edwards quits the race.
• March 3- New Government of Serbia was formed with support of Milošević's SPS party
• March 4 - The national parliament and all state assemblies of Malaysia, except Sarawak's were dissolved by the Prime Minister, paving the way for the general election.
• March 4- Predrag Marković becomes acting President of Serbia.
• March 5- Mikhail Fradkov is confirmed as Prime Minister of Russia.
• March 7- Kostas Karamanlis is given the mandate to form a new government in Greece.
• March 9- Sergey Lavrov is appointed Foreign Minister of Russia.
• March 9- Petros Molyviatis becomes Foreign Minister of Greece.
• March 9- The Parliament of Latvia approves a new government headed by Indulis Emsis, Rihards Piks becomes foreign minister.
• March 11- Salomé Zurabishvili is appointed as foreign minister of the Republic of Georgia.
• March 12- Oleg Chirkunov becomes new acting governor of Perm.
• March 12- Gérard Latortue is sworn in as Prime Minister of Haiti.
• March 13 - Nomination day for the Malaysian general election. Barisan Nasional wins 15 parliamentary seats and 7 state assembly seats uncontested. The Islamic Party of Malaysia settles for one seat in the state of Johor.
• March 16 - Sergey Abaramov is appointed as Prime Minister of Chechnya.
• March 21 - The National Front scores a landslide victory in the Malaysian general election.
• March 23 - Lawrence Gonzi is sworn in as Prime Minister of Malta. John Dalli becomes foreign minister.
• March 24 - Baldwin Spencer is sworn in as Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda. Harold Lovell becomes Foreign Minister.
• March 25 - Datuk Idris Jusoh is sworn in as chief minister of Terengganu.
• March 31 - Michel Barnier becomes foreign minister of France.

April

• April 1 - Paolo Bollini and Marino Riccardi take office as Captains Regent of San Marino.
• April 1- Massoud Barzani becomes President of the governing council of Iraq.
• April 1- Roland Brogli becomes Landammann of Aargau.
• April 4- Camille de Rocca-Serra is elected as president of the Corsican Assembly.
• April 5- Mahinda Rajapakse is appointed as Prime Minister of Sri Lanka.
• April 6- Artūras Paulauskas becomes acting President of Lithuania.
• April 6- Gabriele Gendotti becomes president of the Council of State of Ticino.
• April 7- José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero is asked to form the new government of Spain.
• April 10- Chen Tang-shan is named foreign minister of the Republic of China.
• April 12- Georgy Shpak takes office as governor of Ryazan.
• April 14- Nikolay Kiselyov is sworn in as governor of Arkhangelsk. Mikhail Yevdokimov is sworn in as governor of Altay.
• April 14- James Michel is sworn in as President of Seychelles.
• April 14- S'bu Ndebele is sworn in as Premier of KwaZulu-Natal.
• April 17- José María Barreda Fontes assumes the Presidency of the Junta of Castilla-La Mancha.
• April 18- Ángel Moratinos becomes foreign minister of Spain.
• April 21- Macky Sall is appointed as Prime Minister of Senegal.
• April 22- Catherine Mabuza becomes acting premier of Limpopo.
• April 23- Leonard Ramatlakane is sworn in as acting premier of Western Cape.
• April 23- Sergey Gaplikov becomes acting Prime Minister of Chuvashia.
• April 26- Sello Moloto is sworn in as premier of Limpopo. Ebrahim Rasool is elected premier of Western Cape.
• April 28- Gabi Burgstaller is sworn in as Landeshauptfrau of Salzburg.
• April 29- Ousmane Issoufi Maïga is appointed Prime Minister of Mali.

May

• May 1- Laurie Morgan is elected chief minister of Guernsey.
• May 1- Ezzedine Salim becomes president of the governing council of Iraq.
• May 1- Jean-René Fournier takes office as president of the Council of State of Valais. Ruedi Jeker takes office as president of the government of Zürich.
• May 2- Moctar Ouane becomes foreign minister of Mali.
• May 2- Marek Belka is sworn in as prime minister of Poland.
• May 7- Fredis Refunjol is sworn in as governor of Aruba.
• May 9- Carlos Gomes Júnior is named Prime Minister of Guinea-Bissau.
• May 10- Deborah Barnes Jones is sworn in as governor of Montserrat.
• May 17- Ghazi al-Yawer becomes president of the governing council of Iraq.
• May 19- Manmohan Singh is invited to form the new government of India.
• May 20- Bingu wa Mutharika wins the presidential election in Malawi.
• May 23- K. Natwar Singh becomes foreign minister of India.
• May 28- Dharam Singh is installed as chief minister of Karnataka.
• May 28- Alan Huckle is sworn in as governor of Anguilla.

June

• June 1 - Antonio Saca becomes President of El Salvador; Francisco Laínez becomes foreign minister.
• June 1- Barbara Egger-Jenzer becomes President of the Government of Bern. Sylvie Perrinjaquet becomes president of the Council of State of Neuchâtel, Josef Keller Landammann of Sankt Gallen, Claudius Graf-Schelling president of the government of Thurgau, and Josef Arnold Landammann of Uri.
• June 2- The parliament of the Republic of Macedonia approves the new government of Prime Minister Hari Kostov.
• June 10- The Congress of New Caledonia elects Marie-Noëlle Thémereau as new president of the government.
• June 14- Oscar Temaru is elected president of French Polynesia.
• June 15- Ivan Gašparovič takes office as president of Slovakia.
• June 26- Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain is named as new prime minister of Pakistan.
• June 27 - New President of Serbia, Boris Tadić elected.
• June 28 - Canadian federal elections occur; the Liberal party loses its absolute majority.

July

• July 1 - Horst Köhler takes office as President of Germany.
• July 1- Adrian Ballmer becomes president of the government of Basel-Land; Gerhard Odermatt Landammann of Nidwalden; Elisabeth Gander-Hofer Landammann of Obwalden; and Kurt Zibung Landammann of Schwyz.
• July 1- M. Jodi Rell is sworn in as Governor of Connecticut.
• July 3 - Michael Frendo is sworn in as foreign minister of Malta.
• July 5 - Thanjavelu Rajeshwar is appointed Governor of Uttar Pradesh.
• July 6 - John Edwards named as John Kerry's running mate for U.S. President.
• July 6- Ivo Vajgl is elected foreign minister of Slovenia.
• July 8 - Heinz Fischer is sworn in as President of Austria.
• July 9 - Ahmed Nazif is named Prime Minister of Egypt.
• July 11 - Boris Tadić is sworn in as President of Serbia.
• July 12 - Pedro Santana Lopes appointed Prime Minister of Portugal.
• July 17 - António Monteiro is sworn in as Foreign Minister of Portugal.
• July 19 - Marie Arena becomes minister-president of the French community of Belgium; Charles Picqué becomes minister-president of Brussels-Capital
• July 20 - Karel De Gucht is sworn in as foreign minister of Belgium
• July 20 - Canadian prime minister Paul Martin announces his new cabinet. See Cabinet of Canada.
• July 21 - Artis Pabriks is elected foreign minister of Latvia.
• July 22 - Yves Leterme becomes minister-president of Flanders.
• July 26 - Stanislav Gross is appointed as the prime minister of the Czech Republic.
• July 30 - Jean Asselborn becomes foreign minister of Luxembourg,

August

• August 10 - George Yeo becomes foreign minister of Singapore.
• August 12 - Lee Hsien Loong is sworn in as prime minister of Singapore.
• August 16 - Søren Jessen-Petersen takes office as Kosovo administrator.
• August 17 - Aleksandr Zhilkin becomes acting governor of Astrakhan Oblast.
• August 18 - Lyonpo Yeshey Zimba takes office as prime minister of Bhutan.
• August 18 - Alberto Romulo is appointed as foreign secretary of the Philippines.
• August 23 - Babulal Gaur is sworn in as chief minister of Madhya Pradesh.
• August 25 - The Hungarian Socialist Party picks Ferenc Gyurcsány to be Prime Minister of Hungary.
• August 27 - Shaukat Aziz is elected Prime Minister of Pakistan by the National Assembly of Pakistan.
• August 31 - Oommen Chandy is sworn in as chief minister of Kerala.

September

• September 1 - Terry Davis takes office as secretary-general of the Council of Europe.
• September 1 - Martín Torrijos takes office as president of Panama; Samuel Lewis Navarro becomes Vice President.
• September 2 - Col. Michel Sallé becomes Interior Minister of the Central African Republic.
• September 9 - Anatoly Kvashnin is appointed as Vladimir Putin's plenipotentiary in the Sibirsky federal district.
• September 10 - Alan Boradzov is confiremed Prime Minister of North Ossetia.
• September 13 - Dmitry Kozak is appointed as Vladimir Putin's plenipotentiary in the Yuzhny federal district.
• September 15 - Halldór Ásgrímsson becomes Prime Minister of Iceland.
• September 27 - Nobutaka Machimura becomes foreign minister of Japan.
• September 28 - Tsendiyn Munkh-Orgil is approved as foreign minister of Mongolia.
• September 29 - Ignacio Walker Prieto is named foreign minister of Chile.
• September 29 - Dermot Ahern becomes foreign minister of the Republic of Ireland.

October

• October 1 - Giuseppe Arzilli and Roberto Raschi take office as captains-regent of San Marino.
• October 3 - Nodar Khashba is appointed as Prime Minister of the Republic of Georgia.
• October 5 - Alu Alkhanov is sworn in as president of Chechnya.
• October 6 - Norodom Sihamoni is chosena as King of Cambodia.
• October 9 - Australian election held, John Howard's conservative government re-elected for a fourth term.
• October 10 - Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed is elected by the Transitional National Assembly of Somalia as President.
• October 13 - Atay Aliyev is named Prime Minister of Dagestan.
• October 14 - Sidi Moro Sanneh is appointed as foreign minister of The Gambia.
• October 19 - Lt.Gen. Soe Win becomes Prime Minister of Myanmar.
• October 20 - Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is sworn in as President of Indonesia.
• October 20 - Ursula Plassnik is sworn in as foreign minister of Austria.
• October 21 - Omar Karami is named Prime Minister of Lebanon.
• October 26 - Petrus Compton becomes foreign minister of Saint Lucia.

November

• November 2 - George W. Bush re-elected for a second and final four-year term as U.S. President.
• November 2 - Ferenc Somogyi is sworn in as foreign minister of Hungary.
• November 3 - Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahayan becomes President of the United Arab Emirates.
• November 3 - Janez Janša becomes Prime Minister-designate of Slovenia.
• November 8 - Brenda Christian becomes mayor of Pitcairn Island.
• November 10 - Abdelbaki Hermassi is named foreign minister of Tunisia.
• November 11 - Rauhi Fattouh becomes acting President of Palestine.
• November 18 - The New Zealand parliament passes legislation vesting ownership of all land up to the high tide mark in New Zealand with the Crown.
• November 18 - Monyane Moleleki is named foreign minister of Lesotho.
• November 20 - Alí Rodríguez Araque is named foreign minister of Venezuela.
• November 22 - Mariya Bolshakova becomes acting governor of Ulyanovsk Oblast.
• November 22 - Ralph Klein is re-elected as Premier of Alberta with 61 of 83 seats in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta.

December

• December 1 - Martine Brunschwig Graf becomes president of the Council of State of Genève.
• December 2 - Syed Sibtey Razi is appointed governor of Jharkhand.
• December 2 - The new government of Latvian Prime Minister Aigars Kalvitis is approved.
• December 3 - Ramush Haradinaj is elected Prime Minister of Serbia and Montenegro.
• December 7 - Milos Vystrcil is elected governor of Vysocina.
• December 8 - Ephraïm Inoni is appointed prime minister of Cameroon and Laurent Esso is appointed foreign minister.
• December 9 - Cellou Dalein Diallo is appointed Prime Minister of Guinea.
• December 11 - Ham Lini is elected Prime Minister of Vanuatu.
• December 12 - Traian Basescu is elected and as president of Romania.
• December 14 - Jim Marurai is elected prime minister of the Cook Islands.
• December 17 - Mikhail Kuznetsov takes office as governor of Pskov Oblast.
• December 22 - Calin Popescu-Tariceanu is nominated as Prime Minister of Romania.
• December 23 - Song Xiulian becomes acting governor of Qinghai.
• December 26 - Mihai-Razvan Ungureanu is named foreign minister of Romania.
• December 28 - Nikolay Denin takes office as governor of Bryansk Oblast.

Deaths

(Very partial list of politicians who died in 2004)

• January 6 - Dominica prime minister Pierre Charles dies of heart problems.
• January 15 - Maaruf al-Dawalibi, former Prime Minister of Syria.
• January 16 - Kalevi Sorsa, former Prime Minister of Finland.
• February 11 - Jozef Lenárt, former Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia.
• February 24 - Indian politician Sikander Bakht, governor of Kerala state, dies of an illness.
• February 26 - Macedonian president Boris Trajkovski is killed in a plane crash.
• February 29 - Sir Harold St. John, former Prime Minister of Barbados.
• March 1 - Tadjidine Ben Said Massounde, former Prime Minister of Comoros.
• March 5 - Carlos Julio Arosemena Monroy, former President of Ecuador.
• March 20 - Juliana of the Netherlands, former Queen of the Netherlands.
• April 9 - Sein Lwin, former President of Myanmar.
• April 18 - Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, former President of Fiji.
• May 9 - Russian-backed Chechnyan president Akhmad Kadyrov is assassinated.
• May 17 - Iraq Interim Governing Council president Ezzedine Salim is assassinated.
• June 2 - Tesfaye Gebre Kidan, former acting President of Ethiopia.
• June 5 - Former US President Ronald Reagan dies of Alzheimer's disease at the age of 93.
• June 10 - Xenophon Zolotas, former Prime Minister of Greece.
• June 16 - Thanom Kittikachor, former Prime minister of Thailand.
• June 24 - Carlos Alberto Lacoste, former acting President of Argentina.
• June 25 - L.F. Ramdat Misier, former acting President of Suriname.
• Jule 5 - Hugh Lawson Shearer, former prime minister of Jamaica.
• July 6 - Austrian president Thomas Klestil dies of a heart attack just two days before he was to retire.
• July 10 - Maria de Lurdes Pintassilgo, former Prime Minister of Portugal.
• July 19 - Zenko Suzuki, former Prime Minister of Japan.
• September 12 - Ahmed Dini Ahmed, former Prime Minister of Djibouti.
• September 23 - Winston Cinac, former Prime Minister of Saint Lucia.
• November 11 - Former Palestinian President Yasser Arafat dies from a mysterious illness, aged 75.
• November 18 - Alfred Maseng, former President of Vanuatu.
• November 26 - Hans Schaffner, former President of Switzerland.
• December 23 - P.V. Narasimha Rao, former Prime Minister of India.

See also

• 2004 Canadian federal election
• Australian legislative election, 2004
• U.S. presidential election, 2004
• Serbian presidential election, 2004
• European Parliament election, 2004

External link

• Rulers - Includes months in politics for 2004.