2004 in politics
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Years in politics: 2002-2003-2004-2005-2006 - list of years in politics
Events
- January 1- Adnan Pachachi becomes president of the Iraq Interim Governing Council and will serve for the duration of the month.
- January 1- Joseph Deiss takes office as President of the Confederation in Switzerland, Samuel Schmid as vice-president.
- January 4- Texas Congressman Ralph Hall switches to the Republicans. Hall had been a Democrat.
- January 4- Mikhail Saakashvili is elected as President of Georgia.
- January 6- 2000 Democratic Presidential Candidate Bill Bradley endorses fellow Democrat Howard Dean for President.
- January 8- Gavin Newsom is sworn in as Mayor of San Francisco.
- January 8- Roosevelt Skerrit is sworn in as Prime Minister of Dominica following the death of Pierre Charles on January 6.
- January 12- Kathleen Babineaux Blanco is sworn in as Governor of Louisiana.
- January 13- Haley Barbour is sworn in as Governor of Mississippi.
- January 13- Howard Dean wins a non-binding primary in Washington, DC with 43% of the vote. Al Sharpton comes in second with 34% of the vote.
- January 13- Former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill contributes to a book that claims that George W. Bush wanted to attack Iraq since January 2001 and not after the September 11th terrorist attacks as had been believed.
- January 13- The President of Northern Cyprus approves a new cabinet headed by Mehmet Ali Talat.
- January 14- Oscar Berger Perdomo is inaugurated as President of Guatemala. Eduardo Stein Barillas becomes vice president and Jorge Briz Abularach becomes foreign minister.
- January 14- Madan Lal Khurana is sworn in as governor of Rajasthan.
- January 14- Nikolay Shaklein is sworn in as governor of Kirov.
- January 15- Carol Moseley Braun drops out of the 2004 Presidential race and endorses Howard Dean.
- January 16- Ban Ki Moon is named foreign minister of South Korea.
- January 19- The Iowa Caucuses are held. John Kerry wins with 38%. John Edwards comes second with 32%. Howard Dean comes in third with 18%. Richard Gephardt comes in fourth with 11%.
- January 20- Richard Gephardt quits the 2004 Presidential race after a poor showing in the Iowa Caucuses.
- January 20- Bill Janklow's resignation from Congress takes effect. Janklow had been convicted of a felony in December 2003.
- January 25- Mikhail Saakashvili is sworn in as President of Georgia.
- January 27- John Kerry wins the New Hampshire Primary with 38% of the vote. Howard Dean gets 26% of the vote.
- January 27 - Don Brash Speech Orewa Rotary Club on Nationhood against Maori racial separatism in New Zealand
- February 1- Joerg Schild becomes president of the government of Basel-Stadt.
- February 3-John Edwards wins a primary in South Carolina with 46% of the vote. Wesley Clark wins the Oklahoma primary with 30% of the vote. John Kerry wins primaries and caucuses in Arizona with 43% of the vote, Delaware with 50% of the vote, Missouri with 51% of the vote, New Mexico with 42% of the vote, and North Dakota with 50% of the vote.
- February 3- Joe Lieberman quits the Presidential race after poor results in primaries and caucuses in South Carolina, Oklahoma, Arizona, Delaware, Missouri, North Dakota, and New Mexico.
- February 3- Joannes Eidesgaard becomes prime minister of the Faroe Islands.
- February 4- Andrei Stratan is appointed foreign minister of Moldova.
- February 4- Dragan Marsicanin becomes acting president of Serbia.
- February 6- Richard Gephardt endorses John Kerry for President.
- February 7- John Kerry wins a primary in Michigan with 52% of the vote. Kerry also wins the Washington primary with 49% of the vote.
- February 7 - Peter Beattie (of the Australian Labor Party) wins a 3rd term as Premier of Queensland, again winning over two-thirds of the seats.
- February 8- John Kerry wins the Maine Caucuses with 45% of the vote.
- February 10- John Kerry wins primaries in Tennessee and Virginia with 41% and 52% of the vote, respectfully.
- February 11- Wesley Clark quits the quits the Presidential race after poor results in the Virginia and Tennessee primaries.
- February 13- Wesley Clark endorses John Kerry.
- February 13- Jesus Perez is sworn in as foreign minister of Venezuela.
- February 13- Tassos Giannitsis is sworn in as caretaker foreign minister of Greece.
- February 14- John Kerry wins a caucus in Washington, DC with 47% of the vote. Kerry wins the Nevada caucus with 63% of state party delegates.
- February 17- Democrat Ben Chandler defeats Republican Alice Forgy Kerr in a Congressional special election in Kentucky with 55% of the vote compared to Forgy Kerr's 43%.
- February 17- John Kerry wins 40% of the vote in the Wisconsin primary.
- February 17- Luisa Diogo is named prime minister of Mozambique.
- February 18- Howard Dean quits the Presidential race after a poor showing in Wisconsin.
- February 18- Jacques Simonet is sworn in as minister-president of Brussels-Capital.
- February 21- Ralph Nader enters the Presidential race as an Independent.
- February 23- Paul Lennon becomes acting premier of Tasmania.
- February 23- Mamady Conde is named foreign minister of Guinea.
- February 23- Josep Bargallo Valls takes office as chief councillor of Catalonia.
- February 24- Viktor Khristenko is named acting prime minister of Russia.
- February 26- Ljupco Jordanovski becomes acting president of Macedonia.
- February 28- Sulejman Tihic becomes chairman of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
- February 29- Boniface Alexandre is sworn in as provisional president of Haiti.
- March 2 - "Super Tuesday" U.S. presidential primaries or caucuses take place in California, Connecticut, Georgia, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Rhode Island and Vermont. John Kerry wins in 9 states, and a dejected John Edwards quits the race.
- March 4 - The national parliament and all state assemblies of Malaysia, except Sarawak's were dissolved by the Prime Minister, paving the way for the general election.
- March 4- Predrag Markovic becomes President of Serbia and Montenegro.
- March 5- Mikhail Fradkov is confirmed as Prime Minister of Russia.
- March 7- Kostas Karamanlis is given the mandate to form a new government in Greece.
- March 9- Sergey Lavrov is appointed Foreign Minister of Russia.
- March 9- Petros Molyviatis becomes Foreign Minister of Greece.
- March 12- Oleg Chirkunov becomes new acting governor of Perm.
- March 12- Gerard Latortue is sworn in as Prime Minister of Haiti.
- March 13 - Nomination day for the Malaysian general election. Barisan Nasional wins 15 parliamentary seats and 7 state assembly seats uncontested. The Islamic Party of Malaysia settles for one seat in the state of Johor.
- March 21 - The National Front scores a landslide victory in the Malaysian general election.
- April 1 - Paolo Bollini and Marino Riccardi take office as Captains Regent of San Marino.
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