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

==Events==

===January===
* January 3 – U.S. lobbyist [[Jack Abramoff]] pleads guilty to conspiracy, tax evasion, and mail fraud. His investigation starts a whirlwind of investigations and reforms into U.S. lobbying policies
* January 4 – [[Prime Minister]] [[Ariel Sharon]] of [[Israel]] suffers a massive stroke, resulting in his authority being transferred to Acting Prime Minister [[Ehud Olmert]].
* January 15
** A [[2005–06 Chilean presidential election|run-off election]] takes place in [[Chile]] for the office of president, resulting in a win for [[Michelle Bachelet]].
** The first round of [[2006 Finnish presidential election|Finnish presidential elections]] take place, resulting in a run-off on January 29.
* January 16 – [[Ellen Johnson Sirleaf]] is sworn in as president of [[Liberia]] She becomes the first female elected head of state in Africa.
* January 22
** [[Evo Morales]] is inaugurated as President of [[Bolivia]], becoming the first indigenous president in the nation's history.
** A [[2006 Cape Verde parliamentary election|parliamentary election]] takes place in Cape Verde.
** [[2006 Portuguese presidential election|Presidential elections]] take place in Portugal, resulting in a win for [[Aníbal Cavaco Silva]].
* January 23 – [[Stephen Harper]]'s [[Conservative Party of Canada|Conservative Party]] wins the most seats in the [[2006 Canadian federal election|Canadian federal election]]. Harper becomes the 22nd [[Prime Minister of Canada]] with a [[minority government]].
* January 25 – [[Hamas]] wins a victory in the [[2006 Palestinian legislative election|Palestinian legislative election]], taking 76 of the 132 seats.
* January 27 – [[Elections in the Netherlands Antilles|Elections]] for the legislative body, [[Estates of the Netherlands Antilles|the Estates]], take place in the [[Netherlands Antilles]].
* January 29
** [[Sheikh]] [[Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah]] is sworn in as the Emir of [[Kuwait]].
** [[Tarja Halonen]] is elected [[President of Finland]] following a run-off election against [[Sauli Niinistö]].

===February===
* February 2 – Representative [[John Boehner]] of [[Ohio]] becomes the [[United States House of Representatives|U.S. House]] [[Majority Leader of the United States House of Representatives|Majority Leader]], beating out acting majority leader [[Roy Blunt]] in a house vote.
* February 3 – Dutch [[Democrats 66|D66]] party chairman [[Boris Dittrich]] resigns because the Dutch Government voted 'Yes' to Dutch participation in a [[NATO]]-led [[International Security Assistance Force|ISAF]] operation in [[Afghanistan]].
* February 4 – Twenty-seven out of 35 countries on the [[International Atomic Energy Agency|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 [[2006 Costa Rica presidential elections|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 [[2006 Haitian general election|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 [[NSA warrantless surveillance controversy|Bush's warrantless wiretap program]].
* February 11 – [[Politics of Tokelau|Tokelau]] begins voting in [[2006 Tokelau self-determination referendum|a referendum]] to determine whether it remains a New Zealand territory, or becomes a state in [[associated state|free association]] with New Zealand.
* February 12 – [[2006 Cape Verde presidential election|Presidential elections]] are held in [[Cape Verde]], resulting in [[Pedro Pires]] being elected to [[Heads of state of Cape Verde|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 [[2006 Haitian general election|elections]] there in doubt.
* February 23 – [[2006 Ugandan general election|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, [[Philippines|Philippine]] [[President of the Philippines|President]] [[Gloria Macapagal Arroyo]] declares [[Proclamation 1017]], placing the country in a [[2006 state of emergency in the Philippines|state of emergency]].

===March===
* March 11 – [[Michelle Bachelet]] is sworn in as the first female [[President of Chile]].

===April===
* April 9 – Israeli Prime Minister [[Ariel Sharon]] is removed from office after 4 months in a [[coma]].
* April 10 – [[Romano Prodi]] defeats [[Silvio Berlusconi]] in a close race in the Italian parliamentary elections.
* April 11 – President of [[Iran]], [[Mahmoud Ahmadinejad]], confirms that Iran has successfully produced a few grams of 3.5% low-grade enriched [[uranium]].
* April 19 – [[Han Myung-sook]] becomes [[South Korea]]'s first female Prime Minister.
* April 26 – [[Tony Snow]] replaces [[Scott McClellan]] as the U.S. [[White House Press Secretary]]

===May===
* May 24 – [[East Timor]]'s Foreign Minister [[José Ramos-Horta|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===
* June 10 – Palestinian President [[Mahmoud Abbas]] sets July 26 as the date for a national referendum in the [[Palestinian National Authority]].

===July===
* July 2 – A presidential election is held in [[Mexico]]. [[Felipe Calderón]] is confirmed as the winner on September 5.
* July 14 – [[Jarosław Kaczyński]], leader of the Law and Justice party, is sworn in as Prime Minister of Poland by his identical twin, President [[Lech Kaczyński]].
* July 28 – [[Alejandro Toledo]] concludes his term as [[President of Peru]]. [[Alan García]] becomes president.
* July 31 – [[Fidel Castro]], [[President of Cuba|President]] of [[Cuba]], temporarily relinquishes power to his brother [[Raúl Castro|Raúl]] before surgery.

===August===
* August 3 – [[Tuvalu]] holds [[Parliament of Tuvalu|parliamentary]] [[Elections and parties in Tuvalu|elections]].
* August 4 – [[Viktor Yanukovych]] begins his term as [[Prime Minister of Ukraine|Prime Minister]] of [[Ukraine]].
* August 5 – The [[Republic of China]] (Taiwan) severs diplomatic [[foreign relations of Chad|relations]] with [[Chad]] reducing the number of countries [[Foreign relations of the Republic of China|maintaining official relations]] with it to 24. The ROC foreign ministry cited Chad's intention to establish relations with the [[People's Republic of China]] as the reason.
* August 6 – The [[Government of Chad|Déby administration]] of [[Chad]] establishes official relations with the [[People's Republic of China]]. Chad had recognized the [[Republic of China]] (Taiwan) from 1997 to 2006. Chadian diplomats cited the prospects of greater financial investments and the PRC status in the [[United Nations Security Council]] as the principal factors motivating the diplomatic shift.
* August 9 – A partial recount of [[Voting|votes]] in the disputed [[2006 Mexican general election|2006 Mexico presidential election]], which was held on July 2, begins amid [[Controversies of the 2006 Mexican general election|escalating protests]] against alleged [[Electoral fraud|electoral irregularities]] in the [[close elections|close election]].
* August 10 – A [[2006 transatlantic aircraft plot|major terrorist plot]] to destroy aircraft travelling from the United Kingdom to the United States is disrupted by [[London Metropolitan Police|Scotland Yard]].<ref name="TSA">[http://www.tsa.gov/press/happenings/terror_plot_hearing.shtm "UK 2006 Liquid Explosives Plot Trial Overview"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100125060227/http://www.tsa.gov/press/happenings/terror_plot_hearing.shtm |date=2010-01-25 }}. Transportation Security Administration. Retrieved 6 January 2010.</ref>
* August 14 – The [[2006 Lebanon War]] cease fire goes into effect.
* August 28 – [[Mexico]]'s [[Federal Electoral Tribunal]] rules unanimously that results in contested polling stations only marginally affected the lead of [[Felipe Calderón]] of the ruling [[National Action Party (Mexico)|National Action Party]] over [[Andrés Manuel López Obrador]] in July's [[Controversies of the 2006 Mexican general election|disputed]] [[2006 Mexican general election|presidential election]].

===September===
* September 1 – [[Bob O'Connor (mayor)|Bob O'Connor]] mayor of [[Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania]] dies from a brain tumor and [[Pittsburgh City Council]] president [[Luke Ravenstahl]] is sworn in as the youngest mayor of any major American city.
* September 7 – [[Tony Blair]] announces that he would step down as [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]] leader by the time of the [[Trades Union Congress|TUC]] conference in September 2007
* September 17 – The [[Alliance for Sweden]] achieves a majority victory in the [[2006 Swedish general election]].
* September 19 – [[Thaksin Shinawatra]], Prime Minister of [[Thailand]], is deposed in a [[coup]] staged by the [[Royal Thai Army]].
* September 23 – [[Toomas Hendrik Ilves]] is elected [[President of Estonia]].
* September 26 – [[Shinzō Abe]] is elected as new [[Prime Minister of Japan]] by the [[Diet of Japan]], succeeding [[Junichiro Koizumi]].
* September 29 – [[United States House of Representatives|US Representative]] [[Mark Foley]] (R-FL) resigns after allegations of inappropriate emails to house pages were introduced.

===October===
* October 9 – [[North Korea]] claims to have successfully conducted its first ever [[2006 North Korean nuclear test|nuclear test]].
* October 15 – The [[United Nations|UN]] agrees to sanction [[North Korea]] over nuclear testing issue.
* October 15 – [[Chief Justice of Japan]] [[Akira Machida]] retires after turning the age of 70.
* October 29 – [[Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva]] is re-elected [[President of Brazil]].
* October 30 – Former Chilean Dictator [[Augusto Pinochet]] is placed under house arrest for crimes committed at the [[Villa Grimaldi]] detention centre where thousands were tortured between 1974 and 1977.

===November===
* Former [[Iraq]]i dictator, [[Saddam Hussein]] is sentenced to death by [[hanging]], along with two of his senior allies. He is also found [[guilt (law)|guilty]] of crimes against humanity.
* November 7 – The [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican Party]] suffers losses in the United States midterm elections. They lose control of the [[United States House of Representatives|House of Representatives]] and the [[United States Senate|Senate]] to the [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrats]]. [[Nancy Pelosi]] becomes first female [[Speaker of the United States House of Representatives|Speaker of the House]] being the closest a female has been in succession of the president.
* November 8 – [[Donald Rumsfeld]] resigns from his post as [[United States Secretary of Defense|Secretary of Defense]]. [[Bob Gates]] is named his successor.
* November 9 – Leftist [[Daniel Ortega]] is elected President of [[Nicaragua]]
* November 12 – [[Gerald Ford]] surpasses [[Ronald Reagan]] as the longest lived [[President of the United States|U.S. President]].

===December===
* December 1 – [[Felipe Calderón]] sworn in as the 73rd [[President of Mexico]] by the [[Congress of Mexico|Congress]] in [[Mexico]].
* December 3 – [[2006 Venezuelan presidential election|2006 presidential elections]] re-elects [[Hugo Chávez]] as President of the [[Venezuela|Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela]], with nearly 63% of the vote.
* December 30 – Former [[Iraq]]i dictator, [[Saddam Hussein]] is hanged.<ref name="New York Times">MacFarquhar, Neil. [https://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/30/world/middleeast/30saddam.html?pagewanted=1 "Saddam Hussein, Defiant Dictator Who Ruled Iraq With Violence and Fear, Dies"]. ''The New York Times''. Retrieved 6 January 2010.</ref>

==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, Education, and Welfare|Secretary of Health]]
* April 9 – [[Georges Rawiri]], president of the [[Gabon]] senate
* April 23 – [[Ghafar Baba]], [[Malaysia]]n former Deputy Prime Minister
* April 27 – [[Alexander Buel Trowbridge]], former [[Secretary of Commerce|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 – [[Peter Smithers|Sir Peter Smithers]], member of the [[British Parliament]]
* June 10 – [[Qadi Abdul Karim Abdullah Al-Arashi]], former President of [[Yemen Arab Republic|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]]<ref name="New York Times" />

==See also==
* [[Elections in 2006]]
* [[Electoral calendar 2006]]
* [[list of years in politics]]

==References==
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