* Chilean presidential election, 2009

In January 2009 a CNDD ordonnance combined four elite units of the Guinean armed forces-the presidential guards, the Bataillon Autonome des Troupes Aéroportées ( BATA ), the Battaillon des Commandos de Kindia ( popularly known as the ‘ Commandos Chinois ’) and the Battaillon des Rangers-into a combined commando regiment.

* 2009 – A disputed presidential election in Iran leads to wide ranging protests in Iran and around the world.

* United States presidential inauguration, held every four years since 1937 ( with 2 exceptions by Eisenhower & Reagan, on January 21st because January 20 was a Sunday and 1985 ) in odd-numbered years after years when the United States Presidential Election takes place ( as the election takes place in years divisible by four – 2004, 2008, 2012, and so on – the inauguration takes place in 2005, 2009, 2013, etc .).

However, in a popular uprising in 2009 the last elected president Marc Ravalomanana was made to resign and presidential power was transferred in March 2009 to Andry Rajoelina in a move widely viewed by the international community as a coup d ' état.

In March 2009, Rajoelina was declared by the Supreme Court as the President of the High Transitional Authority, an interim governing body responsible for moving the country toward presidential elections.

The last presidential election was held on 3 December 2006 and resulted in the re-election of Marc Ravalomanana, from whom executive power was unconstitutionally transferred to Andry Rajoelina in March 2009.

He resigned from that post in April 2009 in order to stand as a candidate in the July 2009 presidential election, which he won.

Mickey Hart ( in background, playing drums ) and Bob Weir ( playing guitar ) performing at the Mid-Atlantic Inaugural Ball during the Inauguration of Barack Obama | presidential inauguration of Barack Obama, January 20, 2009.

Congo's next presidential election is set for July 2009.

A 2008 study of presidential rankings for The Times placed Harding at number 34 and a 2009 C-SPAN survey ranked Harding at 38.

* 2009 Iranian election protests – The 2009 Iranian presidential election sparked massive protests in Iran and around the world against alleged electoral fraud and in support of defeated candidate Mir-Hossein Mousavi.

While not being present in the national parliaments of France and the United Kingdom, Jean-Marie Le Pen of the National Front came second in the first round of the 2002 French presidential elections, and in the 2009 European Parliament election, the UK Independence Party came second, beating even the Labour Party, while the British National Party managed to win two seats for the first time.

In January 2009, Adams attended the United States presidential Inauguration of Barack Obama as a guest of US Congressman Richard Neal.

The network has also received some criticism for deciding not to carry scheduled news events such as presidential speeches at times in primetime in order to air regular entertainment programming ( such as a speech in September 2009 which would have jeopardized the long-promoted fall premiere of Glee had it aired ).

The situation has fundamentally changed on March 10, 2009 when army leaders forced the recently appointed defence secretary to resign ( the previous one had decided to resign after the killings by the presidential guard on February 7, 2009 ).

In October 2009 a Rwandan Green Party meeting was violently broken up by police, with authorities placing preventing the registration of the party or allowing it to run a candidate in the presidential election.

He declined to get involved in the 2009 presidential election but also denied that he was considering political retirement.

C-SPAN has also carried CBC ’ s coverage of major events affecting Canadians, including: Canadian federal elections, key proceedings in Canadian Parliament, Six days in September 2000 that marked the death and state funeral of Pierre Elliott Trudeau, the power outage crisis in summer 2003, U. S. presidential elections ( e. g. in 2004, C-SPAN picked up The National the day after the election for the view from Canadians ), state visits and official visits of American presidents to Canada, and Barack Obama inauguration in 2009.

In April 2009, Senator John McCain, along with Representative Peter King, filmmaker Ken Burns and Johnson's great-niece, Linda Haywood, requested a presidential pardon for Johnson from President Barack Obama.

The most recent elections to the House of Representatives were held on 12 March 2009.

On the parliamentary elections in 2009 the newly established personalistic party of Boyko Borisov-Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria ( GERB ) won the elections, securing 116 seats out of 240, which enabled it to form a cabinet alone.

The next congressional elections are scheduled for December 2009.

A news story appeared in April 2009 claiming that the CNP had reformed following a conference in Bodmin, however it did not contest any elections that year.

Labour further increased its number of councillors at the 2009 local elections and currently has the largest number of TD's from the city ( 10 out of 22 ).

The last union-wide elections were the 2009 Parliamentary Elections.

Meanwhile the parties in the ED subgroup were growing restless and finally left following the 2009 elections, when the Czech Civic Democratic Party and United Kingdom Conservatives formed their own European Conservatives and Reformists group on 22 June 2009, abolishing the ED subgroup from that date.

The elections in 2009 saw a significant drop in some areas in support for Eurosceptic parties, with all MEPs from Poland, Denmark and Sweden losing their seats.

Many French people are uninterested in such matters: only 40 % of the French electorate voted in the 2009 European Parliament elections.

In the 2009 European Parliament elections, Debout la République obtained 1. 77 % of the national vote, and Libertas 4. 8 %.

They include the Parti de Gauche and the French Communist Party, which formed the Front de Gauche for the 2009 European Parliament elections and obtained 6. 3 % of the votes.

The Citizen and Republican Movement, a left-wing eurosceptic and souverainist party, did not participate in the 2009 elections.

It received 16. 5 % of the vote at the 2009 European Parliament elections, putting it in second place ahead of the then governing Labour Party.

The FDP retained their seats in the state elections in North Rhine-Westphalia, which was held six months after the federal election, but out of the seven state elections that have been held since 2009, the FDP have lost all their seats in five of them due to failing to cross the 5 % threshold.

At the 2009 Local elections held on 5 June 2009, Fine Gael won 556 seats, surpassing Fianna Fáil which won 407 seats, and making Fine Gael the largest party of local government nationally.

At 2009 European Parliament election held on the same day as the Local elections, which saw a reduction in the number seats from 13 to 12 for Ireland, the party won four seats, retaining the largest number of seats of an Irish party in the European Parliament.

Fianna Fáil joined the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party on 16 April 2009, and has sat in its associated Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe group in the European Parliament since the 2009 European elections.

In 2009, following the elections in Iran, protesters ( who regarded the electoral result as rigged ) began to deface banknotes with slogans such as " Death to the dictator ".

In the 2009 federal elections, the party won 10. 7 % of the votes and 68 out of 622 seats in the Bundestag.

In the 2009 elections however, PASOK became the majority party in the Parliament and George Papandreou became Prime Minister of Greece.

In the elections of March 15, 2009 the FMLN won the presidential elections with former journalist Mauricio Funes as its candidate.

The FMLN has now participated in elections in 1994, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2003, 2004, 2006, and 2009.

Two months before the elections of 2009, however, the FMLN lost the mayoralty of the capital, San Salvador.

At the January 18, 2009 legislative elections, FMLN won 42. 6 % of the vote and 35 seats.

He was inaugurated in June 2009 as the first president coming from the FMLN party.

On Sunday, March 15, 2009 an FMLN candidate, Mauricio Funes, was elected President of El Salvador.

On 15 March 2009, ARENA candidate Rodrigo Ávila lost the presidential election to Mauricio Funes of the FMLN.

The ARENA party expelled Saca in December 2009 for his suspected involvement in getting certain ARENA legislators to defect to a new party, the Grand Alliance for National Unity, in cooperation with the ruling FMLN government.

El Salvador has a multi-party system, although two political parties, ARENA and the FMLN have tended to dominate elections, with ARENA candidates having won four consecutive presidential elections until the election of Mauricio Funes of the FMLN in March 2009.