2005 in politics

Years in politics: 2003-2004-2005-2006-2007 - list of years in politics

Events

January

• January 1
  • The Freedom of Information Act 2000 comes into force in the United Kingdom.
  • In Germany, stage IV of the Hartz concept brought together unemployment benefits and social security benefits, despite protests.
  • Ruth Lüthi becomes president of the Council of State of Fribourg; Heinz Albicker becomes president of the government of Schaffhausen; Anne-Catherine Lyon becomes president of the Council of State of Vaud; Brigitte Profos becomes Landammann of Zug.
• January 2 - Aníbal Acevedo Vilá takes office as governor of Puerto Rico.
• January 4 - Violence in Iraq, assassination of the Governor of Baghdad, Ali al-Haidri.
• January 5 - Adam Daniel Rotfeld is sworn in as Foreign Minister of Poland.
• January 7 - Isidore Mvouba becomes Prime Minister of the Congo Republic.
• January 14 - Sergey Morozov is inaugurated as governor of the Ulyanovsk Oblast.
• January 24 - Yuliya Tymoshenko is named Prime Minister of Ukraine.

Deaths

• January 1- Shirley Chisholm, first black woman elected to the U.S. Congress (b. 1924)
• January 1- Robert Matsui, Member of the U.S. Congress from Sacramento, California (b. 1941)
• January 4 - Ali al-Haidri, Governor of Baghdad
• January 10 - James Forman, American civil rights activist (b. 1928)
• January 17 - Zhao Ziyang, reformist Premier of the People's Republic of China and General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (b. 1919)
• February 2 - Zurab Zhvania prime minister of Georgia, is suffocated in a gas leak at a friend's home.
• February 6 - Gnassingbe Eyadema President of Togo since 1967, dies of an illness.
• 14 February - Former Prime Minister of Lebanon Rafiq Hariri is assassinated in Beirut in a massive car bomb explosion.
• March 8 - Aslan Maskhadov rebel President of Chechnya is killed in battle with Russian troops.
• March 28 - Howell Heflin former United States senator from Alabama
• April 2 - Pope John Paul II Head of the Roman Catholic Church and chief of state of the Vatican City dies of a long illness.
• April 6 - Rainier III Prince of Monaco since 1948, second longest-reigning head of state in the world at the time of his death.

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