2006 in politics
These are some of the notable events relating to politics in 2006.
Events
January
February
March
April
May
- May 24 – East Timor's Foreign Minister Horta officially requests military assistance from the governments of Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia and Portugal.
- May 28 – President Álvaro Uribe Vélez is re-elected in Colombia for a second term. He becomes the first president in over a century to serve consecutive terms.
June
July
August
September
October
November
December
Deaths
(Partial list of politicians who died in 2006)
- January 20 – Andrei Iordan, former prime minister of Kyrgyzstan
- January 21 – Ibrahim Rugova, president of Kosovo, lung cancer
- January 25 – Sudharmono, vice president of Indonesia from 1988 to 1993
- January 27 – Johannes Rau, president of Germany from 1999 to 2004
- February 1 – Samuel Pearson Goddard, Jr., American politician, governor of Arizona 1965–1967.
- February 15 – Sun Yun-suan, former Premier of Republic of China, myocardial infarction
- February 22 – Said Mohamed Djohar, former President of Comoros
- March 11 – Slobodan Milošević, former President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
- March 14 – Lennart Meri, former President of Estonia
- March 15 – George Rallis, former Prime Minister of Greece
- March 28 – Caspar Weinberger, former U.S. Secretary of Defense & Secretary of Health
- April 9 – Georges Rawiri, president of the Gabon senate
- April 23 – Ghafar Baba, Malaysian former Deputy Prime Minister
- April 27 – Alexander Buel Trowbridge, former U.S. Secretary of Commerce
- May 12 – Hussein Maziq, former prime minister & foreign minister of Libya
- May 15 – Chic Hecht, former senator of Nevada
- May 27 – Romeo Lucas García, former President of Guatemala
- June 8 – Sir Peter Smithers, member of the British Parliament
- June 10 – Qadi Abdul Karim Abdullah Al-Arashi, former President of North Yemen.
- June 27 – J. Robert Elliott, United States Federal District Judge
- December 26 – Gerald Ford, 38th President of the United States
- December 30 – Saddam Hussein[6]
See also
References
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