2003 in politics
Years in politics: 2001-2002-2003-2004-2005 - list of years in politics
Events
January 1
- January 1: Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva takes office as president of Brazil. His cabinet includes Celso Amorim as foreign minister; Antônio
Waldez Góes da Silva becomes Governor of Amapá, Carlos
Eduardo de Souza Braga becomes governor of Amazonas, Paulo César
Hartung Gomes becomes governor of Espírito Santo, Blairo Borges Maggi becomes
governor of Mato Grosso, Simão
Robison Oliveira Jatene becomes governor of Pará, Cássio
Rodrigues da Cunha Lima becomes governor of Paraíba, Roberto Requião de Mello e Silva becomes governor of Paraná, José Wellington Barroso de Araújo Dias becomes governor of Piauí, Wilma Maria de Faria becomes governor of Rio Grande do Norte, Germano Antônio Rigotto becomes governor of Rio Grande do Sul, Ivo Narciso Cassol becomes governor of Rondônia, and
Marcelo
de Carvalho Miranda becomes governor of Tocantins.
- January 1: Pavel Chernov
takes office as prime minister of Karelia.
- January 1: Pascal Couchepin takes office as President of the
Confederation and Interior Minister of Switzerland; Ruth Metzler-Arnold becomes vice president; Claude Lässer becomes president of the
Council of State of Fribourg, Stefan Engler president of the
government of Graubünden, Gérald Schaller president of the
government of Canton of Jura, Margrit
Fischer-Willimann Schultheiss of Luzern, Christian Wanner Landammann of
Solothurn, and Jean-Claude Mermoud president of the Council of State of Vaud, and Walter Suter
Landammann of Zug.
- January 1: Kenneth W. Dam
becomes acting treasury secretary of the United States; Bill Richardson takes office as Governor of New Mexico and Jennifer Granholm as Governor of
Michigan.
January 2-January 7
January 8-January 14
January 15-January 31
February
March-June
July-September
October 1-October 7
October 8-October 31
November 1-November 7
November 8-November 30
December
Deaths
January-February
March-August
- March 1: Fidel Sánchez Hernández, former president of El Salvador (1967-1972)
- March 10 Bernard
Dowiyogo president of Nauru.
- March 12 Zoran
Djindjic prime minister of Serbia
- March 30: Valentin
Pavlov, former prime minister of the Soviet Union (1991)
- April 30: Aureliano
Chaves, former Brazilian vice president (1979-1985)
- May 15: Constantin Dascalescu, former prime minister of Romania (1982-1989)
- June 1? Johnny Paul
Koroma President of Sierra Leone 1997-1998.
- June 10: Donald Regan,
former U.S. treasury secretary (1981-1985) and White
House chief of staff (1985-1987)
- June 25 Lester Maddox
segregationist governor of Georgia from 1967 to 1971.
- June 26: Strom
Thurmond, longtime U.S. senator
- August 16: Idi Amin, former
president of Uganda (1971-1979)
- August 19: Carlos Roberto Reina, former president of Honduras (1994-1998)
- August 20: Igor Farkhutdinov, Russian politician, governor of Sakhalin (killed in plane crash).
- August 23: Michael Kijana
Wamalwa, sitting vice-president of Kenya
September-December
External links
- Detailed chronologies at Rulers.org (http://rulers.org): January (http://rulers.org/2003-01.html),
February (http://rulers.org/2003-02.html), March (http://rulers.org/2003-03.html),
April (http://rulers.org/2003-04.html), May (http://rulers.org/2003-05.html),
June (http://rulers.org/2003-06.html), July (http://rulers.org/2003-07.html),
August (http://rulers.org/2003-08.html), September (http://rulers.org/2003-09.html), October (http://rulers.org/2003-10.html), November (http://rulers.org/2003-11.html), December (http://rulers.org/2003-12.html)
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