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General elections were held in Brazil on 6 October 2002, with a second round of the presidential election on 27 October. The elections were held in the midst of an economic crisis that began in the second term of the incumbent president, Fernando Henrique Cardoso of the centre-right Brazilian Social Democracy Party (PSDB). Due to constitutional ...
2002–2003 Lithuanian presidential election; 2002 Macedonian parliamentary election; 2002 Montenegrin parliamentary election; 2002 Montenegrin presidential election; 2002 Nagorno-Karabakh presidential election; 2002 Portuguese legislative election; December 2002 Serbian presidential election; Serbian presidential election, September–October 2002
In 2019, which was the first Dakar Rally to be held in just one country (Peru), Toyota won for the first time with Nasser Al-Attiyah (in his third victory with three different manufacturers). The bike category saw the KTM works team rider, Australian Toby Price, take his first Dakar victory, winning his second title in 2019.
Incumbent president Daniel arap Moi was ineligible to pursue a third term due to the two-term limit in the Constitution of Kenya. This was the first truly free general election held in Kenya since independence in 1964; a number of by-elections were held in 1966 before the onset of de facto one-party rule in 1969. The general election saw the ...
At the beginning of 2012, he announced plans to stand as a candidate in the 2012 Senegalese presidential election, competing against President Abdoulaye Wade. [ 38 ] [ 39 ] However, he was disqualified from running in the election over the legitimacy of the signatures he had collected to endorse his campaign. [ 40 ]
On this day, June 29th, in 2002, Vice President Dick Cheney served as president for a total of two and a half hours, while President Bush underwent a routine colonoscopy at the Camp David ...
Faye was elected president after an election campaign that was marred by an attempt by the government to postpone the election, which was ultimately held on 24 March. Faye received over 54% of the vote, [ 25 ] making him the first opposition candidate to have won an election in the first round since Senegal's independence in 1960.
Outgoing president Macky Sall also congratulated Faye, hailing "a victory for Senegalese democracy". [98] [99] Faye's victory is the first instance that an opposition candidate won an election in the first round since Senegal's independence in 1960. [93] Faye was officially inaugurated as president on 2 April. [100]