2006 in politics

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These are some of the notable events relating to politics in 2006.

Events[]

January[]

February[]

  • February 2 – Representative John Boehner of Ohio becomes the U.S. House Majority Leader, beating out acting majority leader Roy Blunt in a house vote.
  • February 3 – Dutch D66 party chairman Boris Dittrich resigns because the Dutch Government voted 'Yes' to Dutch participation in a NATO-led ISAF operation in Afghanistan.
  • February 4 – Twenty-seven out of 35 countries on the IAEA's Board of Governors vote to refer the nuclear program of Iran to the United Nations Security Council out of concern over Iran's plans to enrich nuclear materials and to refuse IAEA inspection of the process.
  • February 5 – Costa Rica holds a presidential election. The results are deemed too close to call, resulting in a manual count of votes that would not be completed until March 7.
  • February 7 – Haiti holds a general election to replace the interim government of Gerard Latortue. The 129 member Haitian parliament is also elected at this time.
  • February 8
    • Chad and Sudan sign the Tripoli Agreement, ending the Chadian-Sudanese conflict.
    • Heather Wilson, a New Mexico Congresswoman with NSA oversight authority, becoming the first Republican on an intelligence committee to call for a congressional investigation into Bush's warrantless wiretap program.
  • February 11 – Tokelau begins voting in a referendum to determine whether it remains a New Zealand territory, or becomes a state in free association with New Zealand.
  • February 12 – Presidential elections are held in Cape Verde, resulting in Pedro Pires being elected to office.
  • February 15 – In a case of apparent electoral fraud, hundreds of ballot boxes are discovered in a garbage dump in Haiti, throwing the results of the elections there in doubt.
  • February 23 – General elections are held in Uganda, resulting in the election of Yoweri Museveni to a third term.
  • February 24 – In an attempt to subdue a possible military coup, Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo declares Proclamation 1017, placing the country in a state of emergency.

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.

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Deaths[]

(Partial list of politicians who died in 2006)

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ "UK 2006 Liquid Explosives Plot Trial Overview" Archived 2010-01-25 at the Wayback Machine. Transportation Security Administration. Retrieved 6 January 2010.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b MacFarquhar, Neil. "Saddam Hussein, Defiant Dictator Who Ruled Iraq With Violence and Fear, Dies". The New York Times. Retrieved 6 January 2010.
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