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

The DPP became the largest party having reached a plurality in the Legislative Yuan for the first time in 2002 following the 2001 legislative election.

In September 2002, new legislative elections were held, and the Socialist Union of Popular Forces ( Union Socialiste des Forces Populaires — USFP ) led all other parties in the voting.

Until 2008, elected officials were allowed to change political party, while retaining their seats, during set windows which occurred twice each electoral term, due to controversial floor crossing legislative amendments made in 2002.

In 2002, Guevara ran for president ( unsuccessfully, 1. 7 % of the vote ), and the party at the legislative elections won 9. 3 % of the popular vote and 6 out of 57 seats.

December 2002 legislative elections gave his newly formed TIM ( Tiako-I-Madagasikara ) ( I Love Madagascar ) Party a commanding majority in the National Assembly.

The FN failed to hold on to Le Pen's support for the 2002 legislative elections, in which it got 11. 3 % of the vote.

However, it ended subsequent to the legislative elections that followed Chirac's decisive defeat of Jospin ( who failed even to make it through to the runoff ) in the 2002 presidential election.

The APRC maintained its strong majority in the National Assembly in legislative elections held in January 2002, particularly after the main opposition United Democratic Party ( UDP ) boycotted the legislative elections. Monument over the 1994 coup

In November 2002, the 2002 legislative election resulted in a landslide victory ( 42. 27 % of the vote ) for the People's Party under the leadership of Federal Chancellor Wolfgang Schüssel.

Furthermore, elected in a special second round by a majority of left-wing voters, he searched for a moderate to lead the cabinet and the June 2002 legislative campaign.

Being a symbol of the power and authority of a legislative assembly, a precedent was set in 2002 as to the severity of acts of disrespect toward the mace in Canada and, by proxy, the monarch.

Two months later, the " Plural Left " lost the 2002 legislative election.

In the 2002 legislative elections, the PCF came in fourth, polling 4. 8 % of the vote ( the same as the center-right Union for French Democracy, UDF ) and won 21 seats.

At the June 2002 legislative election, DL competed in alliance with the Rally for the Republic and other Chirac supporters as the Union for the Presidential Majority ( UMP ).

* 2002 French legislative elections: the MNR run 572 candidates across France getting 276, 376 votes and 1. 09 % of the popular vote.

In the legislative election of 2002, the PCP achieved its lowest voting result ever, with only 7. 0 % of the vote.

The Workers ' Party received 3. 3 percent of the vote and elected 21 members to parliament in the 2002 legislative elections.

At the legislative elections, 6 October 2002, the party won 74 out of 513 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and 19 out of 81 seats in the Senate, making it one of the biggest parties in Brazil.

During the 20 October 2002 legislative elections, the party won 25. 7 % votes and 126 out of 342 members.

At the legislative elections, 15-29 June 2002, the party is said to have won 6 of 109 seats, under the leadership of Chris Haiveta.

At the legislative election of October 2002, the party was part of the Croatian Coalition ( Koalicija ), that won 9. 5 % of the popular vote and 5 out of 42 seats in the House of Representatives of Bosnia and Herzegovina and 16 out of 140 seats in the House of Representatives of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Founded 2000 by former PLN member ; strong showings in 2002 and 2006 elections ( 30 % of Assembly in 2006 ).

Czech voters returned a split verdict in the June 2002 parliamentary elections, giving Social Democrats ( ČSSD ) and Communists majority, without any possibility to form a functioning government together due to Vladimír Špidla's strong anticommunism.

Presidential elections were held for all of Comoros in 2002, and presidents have been chosen for all three islands as well, which have become a confederation.

Presidential elections were held in 2002, at which Azali Assoumani was elected President.

Gerhard Schröder in the 2002 elections

Since then, gubernatorial elections have been offset by two years from U. S. Presidential elections ( e. g., Presidential elections were in 2000 and 2004, gubernatorial elections were in 1998 and 2002 ).

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.

The strategy backfired, ripping his party wide open and resulting in its humiliating defeat of his candidate, Kenyatta's son, in the December 2002 general elections.

Constitutionally barred from running in the December 2002 presidential elections, Moi unsuccessfully promoted Uhuru Kenyatta, the son of Kenya's first President, as his successor.

International and local observers reported the 2002 elections to be generally more fair and less violent than those of both 1992 and 1997.

However, in the previous parliamentary elections in 2002, Tito's opponents won major victories, and in March 2003 he was ousted in a no-confidence vote ( having served the maximum three terms, he is barred by the constitution to run for another term ).

His four-party coalition government lasted till the next elections in 2002.

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.

Both of them promised to fight corruption and made that the most important issue in 2002 elections.

Six parties were elected to Saiema in 2002 elections.

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.

Konaré stepped down after his constitutionally mandated limit of two terms and did not run in the 2002 elections.

According to the 2002 Russian Federation census, no responders gave the ethnonym Ainu in boxes 7 or 9. 2 in the K-1 form of the census, though some still might exist.

In 2002, the FCC decided to no longer require A and B carriers to support AMPS service as of February 18, 2008.

British architects Brenda and Robert Vale have said that, as of 2002, " It is quite possible in all parts of Australia to construct a ' house with no bills ', which would be comfortable without heating and cooling, which would make its own electricity, collect its own water and deal with its own waste ... These houses can be built now, using off-the-shelf techniques.

Following the introduction of the Enterprise Act 2002, a UK bankruptcy will now normally last no longer than 12 months and may be less, if the Official Receiver files in court a certificate that his investigations are complete.

However, in 2002, there is no merchant marine.

They no longer maintain a rivalry, as Carolina was moved to the NFC South in 2002, and the two have played rarely since then.

In February 2002, the International Olympic Committee retroactively decided that the curling competition from the 1924 Winter Olympics ( originally called Semaine des Sports d ' Hiver, or International Winter Sports Week ) would be considered official Olympic events and no longer be considered demonstration events.

However, as attendance began to dwindle — the Rockies fell to just sixth in the National League in attendance in 2002, and ninth in 2003 and 2004 — the club could no longer afford to build through big-name free agents.

A meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials by the international Cochrane Collaboration in 2002 concluded that fat-restricted diets are no better than calorie restricted diets in achieving long term weight loss in overweight or obese people.

The club remained competitive, however they could progress no further than the second week of the finals each year for the years of 2002, 2003, and 2004.

Hydrocodone is regulated in the same fashion as in Germany ( see below ) under the Austrian Suchtmittelgesetz ; since 2002 it has been available in the form of German products and those produced elsewhere in the European Union under Article 76 of the Schengen Treaty — prior to this, no Austrian companies produced hydrocodone products, with dihydrocodeine and nicomorphine being more commonly used for the same levels of pain and the former for coughing.

" If no owner could be found the Kauffman restrictions were to end on January 1, 2002 and the team was to be sold to the highest bidder.

In 2002, a new treaty between France and Monaco clarifies that if there are no heirs to carry on the dynasty, the Principality will remain an independent nation, rather than be annexed by France.

* Vitim event in Siberia 2002 ( no crater )

In March 2002, Lewinsky, no longer bound by the terms of her agreement with the United States Office of the Independent Counsel, appeared in the HBO special, " Monica in Black and White ", part of the America Undercover series.

After April 26, 2002, no VCR may be manufactured or imported without Automatic Gain Control circuitry ( which renders VCRs vulnerable to Macrovision ).

In April 2002, while the country was no longer under Taliban rule, Zahir Shah returned to Afghanistan to open the Loya Jirga, which met in June 2002.

One newspaper reported that most riders believed erroneously that there was no license or regulation required by law for motorbikes under 50cc in engine size, although these had been regulated in law since 2002 but not enforced.

By 2002, after the crash of Internet advertising, only one news segment could be viewed freely, and by 2004, no free content remained on the website.

Her retirement coincided with the ending of her party's federal parliamentary representation ; the Democrats ' support had collapsed after 2002 and they won no seats at the 2004 and 2007 half-senate elections.

According to an independent study by Ronald Beech of Game 6 of the NBA 2002 Western Conference Finals between the Lakers and Kings, although the refs increased the Lakers ' chances of winning through foul calls during the game, there was no collusion to fix the game.

In 2002, the city of Milan had no sewage treatment plant.

A draw occurs if both opponents are simultaneously disqualified ( as via countout or if the referee loses complete control of the match and both opponents attack each other with no regard to being in a match, like Brock Lesnar vs Undertaker at 2002 Unforgiven ), neither opponent is able to answer a ten-count, or both opponents simultaneously win the match.