Déby won a flawed 63 % first-round victory in May 2001 presidential elections after legislative elections were postponed until spring 2002.

In the 1996 elections, the MpD increased their majority, but in the 2001 the PAICV returned to power, winning both the Legislative and the Presidential elections.

General elections were held in 1974, 1977, 1980, 1983, 1987, 1990, 1994, 1997, 2001, 2005, 2008 and 2012.

* 2001 – Non-reformed communists won the elections in Moldova.

In 2001 Conté organized and won a referendum to lengthen the presidential term and in 2003 begun his third term after elections were boycotted by the opposition.

In November 2001, the National Party won presidential and parliamentary elections.

Although Albania has made strides toward democratic reform and maintaining the rule of law, serious deficiencies in the electoral code remain to be addressed, as demonstrated in the June 2001 parliamentary elections.

International observers judged the 2001 elections to be acceptable, but the Union for Victory Coalition, the second-largest vote recipient, disputed the results and boycotted parliament until 31 January 2002.

These coalitions continued into the 2001 and 2006 national elections.

National elections held on 13 May 2001 returned Berlusconi to power at the head of the five-party center-right " Freedom House " coalition, comprising the prime minister's own party, Forza Italia, the National Alliance, the Northern League, the Christian Democratic Center, and the Democrats ' Center Union.

After a turbulent year in office in which he saw his approval ratings plummet to the single digits, Prime Minister Mori agreed to hold early elections for the LDP presidency in order to improve his party's chances in crucial July 2001 Upper House elections.

Local elections in 2001 represented a victory for the left-of-center parties in several municipalities, including Rīga.

Between local elections in 2001 and Saeima elections in 2002, two new parties formed: the conservative New Era Party led by Einars Repše and Christian Democratic Latvia's First Party.

In three subsequent elections to the Sejm, he ran all the time from Łódź, each time gaining more and more votes ( from 50 thousand in 1991 up to 146 thousand in 2001 ); he held a seat in Parliament till 2005.

The contested 2001 presidential elections in which then-mayor of Antananarivo, Marc Ravalomanana, eventually emerged victorious, caused a seven-month standoff in 2002 between supporters of Ravalomanana and Ratsiraka.

In 2001, elections incorporated more safeguards against voter fraud but opposition candidate ( and former leader ) Mohamed Khouna Ould Haidallah was nevertheless arrested prior to election day on charges of planning a coup, released the same day, and rearrested after the election.

Noting procedural changes and opposition gains in municipal and legislative contests, most local observers considered the October 2001 elections open and transparent.

In October 2001, Mauritania held its third legislative and fifth municipal elections since the establishment of multi-party politics under the 1991 constitution.

Presidential and legislative elections were held on November 4, 2001, the country's fourth free and fair election since 1990.

Former President Fujimori ’ s tainted re-election to a third term in June 2000 strained Peru's relations with the United States and with many Latin American and European countries, but relations improved with the installation of an interim government in November 2000 and the inauguration of Alejandro Toledo in July 2001 after free and fair elections.

In the May 2001 parliamentary elections, he was again the centre-right candidate for Prime Minister and won against the centre-left candidate Francesco Rutelli.

The populist Thai Rak Thai party, led by prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, came to power in 2001.

Thai and U. S. military training together during COBRA Gold 2001.

** Thaksin Shinawatra 丘達新 / 丘达新 ( 1949 -; Fengshun, Guangdong ; born in Thailand ; Hakka pronunciation: Hiew Tat Sin ), founder Thai Rak Thai political party ; only Prime Minister of Thailand to finish a term of office and be reelected, 2001 – 2006 ; exiled, 2008.

Samart had a role in the 2001 Thai film, The Legend of Suriyothai.

* On 3 March 2001 – Thai Airways International Flight 114, a Thai Airways International Boeing 737-400 ( HS-TDC ), bound for Chiang Mai from Bangkok, was destroyed by an explosion and fire that occurred about 35 minutes before the Former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra and about 150 other passengers were to board.

ISO / IEC 8859-11: 2001, Information technology — 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets — Part 11: Latin / Thai alphabet, is part of the ISO / IEC 8859 series of ASCII-based standard character encodings, first edition published in 2001.

Thai Rak Thai won the legislative election of 2001 by a landslide margin over the ruling Democrat Party led by Prime Minister Chuan Leekpai.

However, with New Aspiration's star waning after it was forced out of power in 1997, Sanoh decided to cast his lot with Thai Rak Thai before the 2001 elections.

* Wang Phayanak – This group is led by Deputy Prime Minister Phinij Jarusombat, who was leader of the small Seritham Party before it merged with Thai Rak Thai after the 2001 elections.

* Phor Mod Dam – This group, also known as " Rim Nam ", is led by Deputy House Speaker Suchart Tancharoen, a key figure in the former New Aspiration Party, which merged with Thai Rak Thai after the 2001 elections.

Explosion of Thai Airways International Boeing 737 in 2001 and Philippine Airlines 737 in 1990 also occurred in a tank that had residual fuel.

In 1996 the company purchased Taiwan Cement Corporation ; in 1998, part ownership of Thai Electricity Generating Public Co Ltd ; and in 2001, Australian Yallourn Energy.

** Sofa ( Thai band ), a Thai band active from 2001

" Arlai World Trade " (" Mourning the World Trade Center ," album Luk tung sa on 6 ) aroused comment in Thailand's English-language press for the way it addressed the September 11, 2001 attacks: " the reigning Morlam superstar of Thailand laments the attacks of Sept. 11 while young, bare-midriffed Thai girls gyrate in front of a surging American flag ".

The Party lost a landslide election victory to Thaksin Shinawatra's populist Thai Rak Thai party, winning 128 seats compared to the TRT's 248 in the 2001 general election.

* Basil Gounaris, " From Peasants into Urbanites, from Village into Nation: Ottoman Monastir in the Early Twentieth Century ", European History Quarterly 31: 1 ( 2001 ), pp. 43 – 63.

* Eck, Diane ( 2001 ) A New Religious America: How a " Christian Country " Has Become the World's Most Religiously Diverse Nation ( San Francisco: Harper ).

It originally included " the prayer of Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, the Archbishop of Washington in a Mass on September 12, 2001 for our Nation and the victims in the immediate aftermath of the terrorist hijackings and attacks in New York City, Washington, D. C., and Pennsylvania reminds all Americans that ' We must seek the guilty and not strike out against the innocent or we become like them who are without moral guidance or proper direction.

Notable story arcs of this decade are " Revolution " ( 2000 ), " Eve of Destruction ," " E Is For Extinction " ( 2001 ), " Planet X ," " Here Comes Tomorrow ," " Gifted ," ( 2004 ) X-Men: Phoenix-Endsong, " House of M ," " Decimation " ( 2005 ), Deadly Genesis ( 2005 – 2006 ), " Endangered Species " ( 2007 ), " Messiah Complex " ( 2007 – 2008 ), " Divided We Stand " ( 2008 ), " Manifest Destiny " ( 2008 – 2009 ), X-Infernus, " Messiah War ," " Utopia ," " Nation X " and " Necrosha " ( 2009 ).

In his best-selling 2001 book Fast Food Nation, investigative journalist Eric Schlosser leveled a broad, socioeconomic critique against the fast food industry, documenting how fast food rose from small, family-run businesses ( like the McDonald brothers ' burger joint ) into large, multinational corporate juggernauts whose economies of scale radically transformed agriculture, meat processing, and labor markets in the late twentieth century.

* Andres Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, Jeff Speck Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream 320 pages, North Point Press, 2001 ISBN 0-86547-606-3 or ISBN 978-0-86547-606-6

In the 2001 Queensland state election, One Nation won only three seats and 8. 69 % of the primary vote.

At the 2001 state election in Western Australia, One Nation won three seats in the state's Legislative Council.

Oldfield engineered a split within the party, thereby creating One Nation NSW, in 2001.

" Annihilation " was recorded in 2004 by A Perfect Circle for their final LP, eMOTIVe ; Sepultura also covered it as a bonus track on the album Nation ( 2001 ).

In 2001, Franklin County was featured in David Brooks ' article " One Nation, Slightly Divisible " in The Atlantic as a representative Red or Republican Party county.

* Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal ( 2001 )

The World for a Shilling: How the Great Exhibition of 1851 Shaped a Nation, Headline Books, 2001.

He contributed to the multi-artist Transmetropolitan special " I Hate It Here " and provided three covers each to the on-going Transmetropolitan ( 2002 ) and Swamp Thing ( 2001 ); covered the complete Scarab ( 1993-4 ) miniseries, all 19 issues of Outlaw Nation and one issue each of the anthology titles Gangland, Heartthrobs and Weird War Tales.

* Kai-Wing Chow, " Narrating Nation, Race and National Culture: Imagining the Hanzu Identity in Modern China ," in Chow Kai-Wing, Kevin M. Doak, and Poshek Fu, eds., Constructing nationhood in modern East Asia ( 2001 ).

According to the Carnal Nation site, the issue was first raised by the group Feminists Against Censorship ( FAC ) in 2001.

In 2006 Hawke was cast in a supporting role in the film Fast Food Nation, an adaptation by Linklater and Eric Schlosser of Schlosser's best-selling 2001 non-fiction book Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal.

* Godfrey Mwakikagile, Kenya: Identity of A Nation, New Africa Press, Pretoria, South Africa, 2008 ; Godfrey Mwakikagile, Ethnic Politics in Kenya and Nigeria, Nova Science Publishers, Inc., Huntington, New York, 2001.

* Matthew Collings, Art Crazy Nation: The Post Blimey Art World, 21 Publishing Ltd, 2001

Arlo Guthrie performed it on NPR's Talk of the Nation on November 14, 2001.

When former Nation of Islam ( NOI ) minister Khalid Abdul Muhammad became the national chairman of the NBPP from the late 1990s until his death in 2001, the group attracted many breakaway members of the NOI.

* Fast Food Nation, 2001 book

Nation, the band's eighth album with Roadrunner Records, was released in 2001 and sold poorly.

* Sepultura – Nation ( 2001 )