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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).
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
Pape Diop (born 17 April 1954 [1] [2] [3]) is a Senegalese politician and a leading member of the Senegalese Democratic Party (PDS) who was President of the Senate of Senegal from 2007 to 2012. He was Mayor of Dakar, the capital city, from 2002 to 2009, as well as President of the National Assembly from 2002 to 2007. [4] Diop was born in Dakar.
Incumbent president Moi was constitutionally barred from running in the 2002 presidential elections. Some of his supporters floated the idea of amending the constitution to allow him to run for a third term, but Moi preferred to retire, choosing Uhuru Kenyatta , the son of Kenya's first President , as his successor. [ 2 ]
In the second round of the French presidential election, Jacques Chirac is reelected. Burkina Faso, parliamentary; May 12 – Mali, presidential (run-off) May 14 – Sierra Leone, parliamentary and presidential; May 15 – Dutch general election, 2002: The CDA has become the largest party and the right-wing LPF became the third
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 ...
The AKP, which had only been formed in August 2001 by Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, won the election, securing nearly two-thirds of the seats (363 seats won with 34% of the vote). The only other party to pass the 10% threshold to gain representation in parliament was the CHP, which came second (178 seats secured from 19.38% of the vote).
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.