She became Vice President in 1996, following the election of Abdalá Bucaram as President.

Abdalá Bucaram Ortíz ( born February 20, 1952 in Guayaquil ) is an Ecuadorian politician and lawyer who occupied the Presidency of Ecuador from 10 August 1996 to 6 February 1997.

Abdalá Bucaram was President from August 10, 1996 to February 6, 1997.

Bucaram was elected President in 1996 but was impeached the following year.

* 1996 – NASA announces that the ALH 84001 meteorite, thought to originate from Mars, contains evidence of primitive life-forms.

* 1996 – Greek Cypriot refugee Solomos Solomou is murdered by Turkish forces while trying to climb a flagpole in order to remove a Turkish flag from its mast in the United Nations Buffer Zone in Cyprus.

A 1996 Tel Aviv hospital study of 67 patients with back pain of more than three months duration found patients benefited from a multidisciplinary approach to treatment that included back schooling, psychological intervention, and treatment by acupuncture, chiropractic, the Alexander Technique and a pain specialist.

* Excerpt on the geology of Athens from: A Geological Companion to Greece and the Aegean by Michael and Reynold Higgins, Cornell University Press, 1996

The arctic fox is classed as a " prohibited new organism " under New Zealand's Hazardous Substances and New Organisms Act 1996 preventing it from being imported into the country.

The Porvoo Common Statement ( 1996 ), agreed to by the Anglican churches of the British Isles and most of the Lutheran churches of Scandinavia and the Baltic, also stated that " the continuity signified in the consecration of a bishop to episcopal ministry cannot be divorced from the continuity of life and witness of the diocese to which he is called.

Carolla co-hosted the syndicated radio call-in program Loveline from 1995 to 2005 as well as the show's television incarnation on MTV from 1996 to 2000.

A 2001 study found that Atlanta ’ s heavy tree cover declined from 48 % in 1974 to 38 % in 1996.

The total population of Outback Australia declined from 700, 000 in 1996 to 690, 000 in 2006.

Since 1996 estimates, there has been a significant reduction in the total length of unpaved highway in Botswana-between 1996 and 1999 total length of unpaved highway fell from 14, 139 km to 4, 597 km.

However, the parting was amicable as Kahn remained on the Borland board until November 7, 1996, when he resigned from that position.

He has one daughter from his marriage to Gale Anne Hurd, Lolita de Palma, born in 1991, and one daughter from his marriage to Darnell Gregorio, Piper De Palma, born in 1996.

On 18 November 2008 the band released The BBC Sessions, which features songs from the period of 1996 – 2001 ( including the last recordings featuring Isobel Campbell before she left the band ), along with a second disc featuring a recording of a live performance in Belfast from Christmas 2001.

The Baltimore Ravens came into existence in 1996 when Art Modell, then owner of the Cleveland Browns, announced his intention to relocate his team from Cleveland to Baltimore.

The Orioles experienced their greatest success from 1964 – 1983, as well as 1996-1997, winning eight Division Championships ( 1969 – 1971, 1973 – 1974, 1979, 1983, 1997 ), six pennants ( 1966, 1969 – 1971, 1979, 1983 ), three World Series Championships ( 1966, 1970, 1983 ), one wild card berth ( 1996 ), and five Most Valuable Player awards ( 3B Brooks Robinson 1964, OF Frank Robinson 1966, 1B Boog Powell 1970 and SS Cal Ripken Jr. 1983 & 1991 ).

Not long after, in 1996, Karmal died from liver cancer.

In 1996, the year after the film was released, the annual three-day " Braveheart Conference " at Stirling Castle attracted fans of Braveheart, increasing the conference's attendance to 167, 000 from 66, 000 in the previous year.

Burhanuddin Rabbani ( Burhânuddîn Rabbânî ; 20 September 1940 – 20 September 2011 ) was President of the Islamic State of Afghanistan from 1992 to 1996.

He took over as President from 1992 until the Taliban's conquest of Kabul in 1996.

* The CEO-The PFY's uncle Brian from 1996 until 2000, when the BOFH and PFY moved on to a new company

Following the IRA ceasefires between 1994 and 1996 and since 1997, demilitarisation has taken place as part of the peace process, reducing the military presence from 30, 000 to 5, 000 troops.

In 1992 and 1996, Maddox crossed party lines and endorsed unsuccessful populist Republican Patrick J. Buchanan for the presidency.

After the 1996 election National had formed a coalition with the populist New Zealand First party and its controversial leader, Winston Peters.

Further trouble for Fischer and the NPA came with the rise of One Nation, a right-wing populist party led by Pauline Hanson, a disendorsed Liberal candidate who was nonetheless elected member for the Queensland seat of Oxley at the 1996 federal election.

Akram al-Hawrani (, also transcribed El-Hourani, Howrani or Hurani ) ( 1912 – 1996 ), was a Syrian politician who played a prominent role in the formation of a widespread populist, nationalist movement in Syria and in the rise of the Ba ' th Party.

After a brief period ( 1994 – 1996 ) as a subsidiary of the Ecuadorian airline SAETA when its name was LAPSA, in 1996 the majority of the stakes of LAP were sold to the Brazilian airline TAM Airlines and the current acronym was adopted.

In the general elections of June 1996 the Democratic Party tried to win an absolute majority and manipulated the results.

Between 1996 and 1998, there was a period of political flux with the government being formed first by the nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party ( BJP ) followed by a left-leaning United Front coalition.

Although government policies supporting large military and internal security forces and allocating resources to key supporters of the Ba ' ath Party government hurt the economy, implementation of the United Nations ' corruption-plagued oil-for-food program in December 1996 was to have improved conditions for the average Iraqi citizen.

In January 1995, Kemp's stated reason for not entering the 1996 Republican Party presidential primaries was that his personal beliefs were out of balance with the contemporary Republican political landscape: Kemp opposed term limits, he always preferred tax cuts to anything resembling a balanced budget amendment and, unlike most Republicans, favored federal incentives to combat urban poverty.

Among the 1996 Republican Party candidates, both Steve Forbes and Phil Gramm proposed the flat tax.

On August 16, 1996, the Republican Party chose Kemp as its vice presidential nominee, running alongside former Senator Dole.

The 1996 elections resulted in the election of the Labour Party, by 8, 000 votes, to replace the Nationalists who had won in 1987 and 1992.

The main opposition party was the Democratic Party or DP, which controlled a governing coalition from 1996 to 2000.

In February 1996, the Communist Party of Nepal ( Maoist ) began a violent insurgency in more than 50 of the country's 75 districts.

* 1996 – Death of Abdullah Çatlı, leader of the Turkish ultra-nationalist organisation Grey Wolves in the Susurluk car-crash, which leads to the resignation of the Turkish Interior Minister, Mehmet Ağar ( a leader of the True Path Party, DYP ).

In the 1996 general elections the Natural Law Party ran candidates only in the Trentino-Alto Adige / Südtirol region, who won 8, 298 votes for the Chamber of Deputies and 5, 842 for the Senate ( about 1 % on a regional basis, 0. 2 % in the whole country ).

A 70-page Natural Law Party paper was prepared in the context of the 1996 Framework Document of the British and Irish governments.

The Natural Law Party ( United States ) ran John Hagelin as its presidential candidate in 1992, 1996, and 2000.

Keating immediately resigned as Labor Party leader, and resigned from Parliament a little over a month later, on 23 April 1996.

Promises of a return to civilian rule were fulfilled by Bio, who handed power over to Ahmad Tejan Kabbah, of the Sierra Leone People's Party ( SLPP ), after the conclusion of elections in early 1996.

* Raving Loony Party Favourites ( Compilation, 1996 )

In the 1996 Nicaraguan election, Ortega and Ramírez both campaigned unsuccessfully as presidential candidates on behalf of their respective parties, with Ortega receiving 43 % of the vote while Arnoldo Alemán of the Constitutional Liberal Party received 51 %.

McVeigh was a registered Republican when he lived in Buffalo, New York in the 1980s, and had a membership in the National Rifle Association while in the military, but voted for Libertarian Party candidate, Harry Browne, in the 1996 presidential elections.

The U. S. version of the Natural Law Party ran John Hagelin as its presidential candidate in 1992, 1996, and 2000.

In 1996, the Libertarian Party became the first third party to earn ballot status in all 50 states two presidential elections in a row.

Pat Buchanan threatened in 1996 to run as the U. S. Taxpayers Party candidate if Bob Dole chose a pro-choice running mate.

The current President of the Socialist Republic, Trương Tấn Sang, was directly elected from the provinces at the 8th Party Congress, held 1996.

** Alfred Sant, Leader of Malta Labour Party ( 1992 –) and Prime Minister of Malta ( 1996 – 1998 )

* January 30 – John Howard becomes leader of the Liberal Party of Australia to challenge Paul Keating for the 1996 Federal Election and the position of Prime Minister of Australia.