On December 16, 2002, Tulk was appointed by the federal government of Jean Chrétien to the Canadian Transportation Agency.

Former Premier Beaton Tulk represented the district until he resigned in 2002.

The Socialists re-elected Ilir Meta as Prime Minister in August 2001, a post which he held till February 2002, when he resigned due to party infighting.

Stott Despoja was elected leader on 6 April 2001, replacing Meg Lees, who resigned from the party in July 2002.

In December 2002, Đukanović resigned as president and was appointed Prime Minister.

In March 2002 Aimo Kairamo, the long-time chief editor of the party organ of the Social Democrat Party, resigned from Attac and recommended the same decision for other social democrats because of the left-wing minority communists ' leading positions.

He resigned in December 2002 after just five matches ( 2 wins, 1 draw, 2 defeats, including a 0: 1 debacle at home against Latvia in a European Championship qualifier ).

Shortly thereafter, the company ’ s audit committee and board of directors were notified of the fraud and acted swiftly: Sullivan was fired, Myers resigned, Arthur Andersen withdrew its audit opinion for 2001, and the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission ( SEC ) launched an investigation into these matters on June 26, 2002 ( see accounting scandals ).

On September 15, 2002, Lipinski wrote a terse, page-one note informing readers that the paper's longtime columnist, Bob Greene, resigned effective immediately after acknowledging " engaging in inappropriate sexual conduct some years ago with a girl in her late teens whom he met in connection with his newspaper column.

Hindery predicted that the company would attain a positive cash flow by early 2002, but he resigned in October 2000 after seven months with the company, after the sale of the GlobalCenter division to Exodus Communications.

Fiala resigned after the 2002 season and was replaced by former major-league catcher Marc Hill.

At the end of the 2002 season Miles Wolff resigned as commissioner of the Northern League to focus on his duties with the now-reinstated Northern League.

Julie A. MacDonald, deputy assistant secretary at the Interior Department appointed by Norton in 2002, also resigned after an internal review found that she had violated federal rules by giving government documents to lobbyists for industry.

He resigned from that office in October 2002 after having been elected as a member of the Bundestag, the parliament of the Federal Republic of Germany.

Ainsworth resigned from Iain Duncan Smith's frontbench for family reasons in 2002.

Norman and Mangano severed their business association, with Norman selling his interest in Street Level Artists Agency to Mangano, who subsequently resigned in October 1980 to start a new career in working to help the homeless, and becoming the Executive Director of the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness for seven years from March 2002,

Recent scandals include the convictions of the mayor, David Delle Donna, and his wife, a member of the town planning board, on federal extortion and mail fraud charges ; a former mayor, Peter LaVilla, who pleaded guilty in 2003 to misappropriating campaign funds and using the money for a private brokerage account ; a councilman who resigned after being accused of receiving illegal advances on his salary ; and a chief financial officer, who pleaded guilty in 2002 to misappropriation of funds.

McCormac replaced Frank G. Pelzman, who became mayor on January 17, 2002 when former Mayor James E. McGreevey resigned to become governor.

* 2002 recall of multiple Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, elected county officials including Executive F. Thomas Ament ( resigned before election ); Board Chair Karen Ordinans ; and Board Supervisors Penny Podell, LeAnn Launstein, David Jasenski, Kathy Arciszewski, James McGuigan, and Linda Ryan.

Republican Wendell N. Butler, Jr. was appointed Mayor of the City of Chester on October 9, 2002, to fill the unexpired term of Dominic Pileggi, who resigned to take a seat in the State Senate.

In 2002, after Gephardt resigned as minority leader to seek the Democratic nomination in the 2004 presidential election, Pelosi was elected to replace him, becoming the first woman to lead a major party in the House.

Law resigned as Archbishop of Boston on December 13, 2002, in response to the Roman Catholic Church sex abuse scandal after church documents were revealed which suggested he had covered up sexual abuse committed by priests in his archdiocese.

On December 20, 2002, after significant controversy following comments regarding Strom Thurmond's presidential candidacy, Lott resigned as Senate Minority Leader.

In the wake of controversy, Lott resigned as Senate Republican Leader on December 20, 2002, effective at the start of the next session, January 3, 2003.

The closest example in recent years is perhaps Estelle Morris who resigned as Secretary of State for Education and Skills in 2002, following severe problems and inaccuracies in the marking of A-level exams.

* June 3: Republican Randy Neugebauer defeats fellow Republican Mike Conaway in a Texas Congressional special runoff election to succeed Larry Combest, who resigned in November 2002.

In 1995, he was appointed John Burchard Professor of Humanities at MIT, a position that he resigned in 2002 to allow himself more time for writing.

On 28 June 2007, the FARC-EP reported the death of 11 out of 12 provincial deputies from the Valle del Cauca Department whom the guerrillas had kidnapped in 2002.

It was established in 2002 to absorb the students and programs of the former Technical University of British Columbia which was closed by the provincial government.

The political independence of suburban municipalities from the nearby city is a sensitive political issue, since provincial governments have the power to rewrite municipal boundaries at will, and they have often dictated mergers without input from residents ( recently in Nova Scotia in 1996, Ontario in 1997 and Quebec in 2002 ).

From 2002 to 2006 the entire Island of Montreal was merged into one city, but this policy was partly reversed when a different party captured the provincial government.

However, an attempt to form a provincial party with clear, if unofficial links with the CA was made in Alberta, where the Alberta Alliance was formed in 2002.

Following the crisis of 2002, the President replaced provincial governors with appointed PDSs ( Presidents des Delegations Speciales ).

For example, during the Argentine economic crisis of 2002, small denomination, interest-free provincial bond IOUs issued by local governments quickly took on some of the characteristics of local currencies successfully.

The group has won recognition for its members as status Indians under Canada's Indian Act in 2002 and is currently involved in land claim and self-governance negotiations with the federal and provincial governments.

In 2002, the Parti Québécois, leading the provincial government, merged the cities of Hull, Gatineau, Aylmer, Buckingham and Masson-Angers into one city.

On January 1, 2002, as part of the 2000 – 2006 municipal reorganization in Quebec, the provincial government amalgamated the former Longueuil with Boucherville, Brossard, Greenfield Park, LeMoyne, Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville, Saint-Hubert and Saint-Lambert.

In 2002, however, the provincial board of Antique passed a resolution fixing the date of the celebration in April, and when the management of the festival was given to Binirayan Foundation, Inc. the dates were set on the third weekend of April.

In the 2002 motion picture Nicholas Nickleby Dame Edna plays the role of Mrs. Crummles, an actress and wife of the manager of a provincial theatre company.

* Biggar ( electoral district ), provincial electoral district since 2002

In 2002, non-party national and provincial elections were held.

He was re-elected without difficulty in the provincial election of 1999, and served as Chief Opposition Whip from 1999 to 2002.

Ecker was named Minister of Finance on April 15, 2002, and became the first female Minister of Finance in Ontario to introduce a provincial budget.

In 2002, the provincial government appointed Paul Christie as supervisor for the school board since the trustees had refused to submit a balanced budget.

The party appears to have been founded in 2002, at the same time as the Grey Party of Canada and other provincial Grey Parties.

Smith also unveiled two hybrid electric cars for the provincial fleet in December 2002, and said that he planned to double the number of environmentally friendly vehicles in provincial service.

Smith announced in November 2002 that the Doer government would expedite the tendering process for provincial capital construction, indicating that 80 % of projects would be tendered by January.

In late 2002, Barrett announced that she would not be a candidate in the next provincial election.

Also in 2002, she defended the provincial government's controversial decision to spray Malathion in the Winnipeg area, as a means of controlling the city's insect population during an outbreak of the West Nile Virus.

He first sought the provincial Progressive Conservative nomination for Riel in 2002, but withdrew when it became clear that the nomination date would be in flux for some time.