The government was deposed in 15 March 2003 by forces under the rebel leader François Bozizé, who promised elections in 18 to 30 months.

The prohibition was officially recognized as unconstitutional in April 2003, allowing Óscar Arias to run for President a second time in the 2006 Costa Rican presidential elections, which he won with approximately a 1 % margin.

In late 2003, new parliamentary elections were held and a reformed HDZ party won under leadership of Ivo Sanader, who became prime minister.

In the 2003 elections, Mario Cabrera González was elected as president representing the Canarian Coalition, with 31. 02 % of the votes, followed by the Spanish Socialist Workers ' Party with 27. 53 %, represented by the Vice President Domingo Fuentes Curbelo.

Three factors are generally cited that enabled Schröder to win the elections despite poor approval ratings a few months before and a weaker economy: good handling of the 100-year flood, firm opposition to the USA's 2003 invasion of Iraq, and Stoiber's unpopularity in the east, which cost the CDU crucial seats there.

Following a crisis involving allegations of ballot fraud in the 2003 parliamentary elections, Eduard Shevardnadze resigned as president on November 23, 2003, in the bloodless Rose Revolution.

Mitchell went on to win the 2003 elections with a reduced majority of 8 of the 15 seats and served as Prime Minister for a record 13 years until his defeat in 2008.

His supporters demanded that the nation's courts overturn a ban against former coup leaders so that he could run as a presidential candidate in the 2003 elections.

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.

The November 2003 party convention was held in Dresden and decided the election platform for the 2004 European Parliament elections.

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 ).

Since independence, general elections have been held in 1966, 1971, 1976, 1981, 1987, 1992, 1996, 1998, 2003 and 2008.

The only non-Hindu PM was Paul Raymond Bérenger who spent 22 months in office from 2003 to 2005 thanks to an understanding between his party, the MMM, and Sir Aneerood Jugnauth's party, the MSM, prior to the 2000 elections.

In May 2003, elections were held within the parliament to select a new president.

Meanwhile, in parliamentary elections held in May 2003, Nauru First Party won 3 seats and independents garnered 15 in total.

* 2003 – Rose Revolution: the Georgian president Eduard Shevardnadze resigns following weeks of mass protests over flawed elections.

He also served as Speaker of the Parliament of Finland from 2003 – 2007 and was his party's nominee in the 2012 Finnish presidential election but received only 6. 7 % of the votes, making it the biggest defeat the Social Democratic Party has ever had in Finnish Presidential elections.

The 2003 elections were carried out in the same manner as prior to 1996.

The first post-war presidential and legislative elections were held in August and September 2003, respectively.

Early elections originally set for 2003 were called in August / September 2001.

The previous elections ( before those held in 2007, below ) to the National Council were held in 2003, see elections of 2003 for more details.

Relations between the United States of America and the Republic of Angola ( formerly the People's Republic of Angola ) have warmed since Angola's ideological renunciation of Marxism before the 1992 elections.

Fraudulent Polish elections held in January 1947 resulted in Poland's official transformation to the People's Republic of Poland.

Nevertheless the consolidation held through the 1990s, assisted by the group being renamed to the European People's Party – European Democrats ( EPP-ED Group ), and the group reclaimed its position as the largest group in the Parliament after the 1999 elections.

After 1944 Communists were a factor to consider for a few decades, and the Finnish People's Democratic League, formed by Communists and others to the left of Social Democrats, even was the largest party after 1958 elections.

Venizelos was forced to default on Greece's national debt in 1932, and he fell from office after the 1932 elections, being succeeded by a monarchist coalition government led by Panagis Tsaldaris of the People's Party.

In November 1945, Tito's pro-republican People's Front, led by the Communist Party of Yugoslavia, won the elections with an overwhelming majority, the vote having been boycotted by monarchists.

Mongolia's first multi-party elections for a People's Great Khural were held on 29 July 1990.

Later that month, before the Supreme Soviet, he proposed the creation of a new office of President of the Soviet Union, for himself to be elected by the Congress of People's Deputies rather than the popular elections.

The elections in 1995 were contested by the two major parties, the ruling People's Action Movement ( PAM ) and the St. Kitts and Nevis Labour Party.

The governing United Workers Party, and the opposition St Lucia Labour Party, along with the newly formed Lucian People's Movement, are expected to contest the next elections.

In the May 2007 National Assembly elections, Seychelles People's Progressive Front took 56. 2 % of votes and Seychelles National Party in coalition with Seychelles Democratic Party took 43. 8 %.

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.

A new constitution was promulgated in 1979 under which elections for a People's Assembly were held.

Also, the People's Party lost eight of their seats in the National Council and two in the Council of states in the elections of 2011.

After the elections, the coalition was joined by the Polish People's Party ( PSL ) in forming a government and Leszek Miller became the Prime Minister.

The Vietnamese constitution and legislation provide for regular elections for the office of the President of the Socialist Republic, the National Assembly and the People's Councils.

* February – Convention People's Party wins national elections in Gold Coast ( British colony ).

In January 1994 the last DC secretary Mino Martinazzoli decided to change the name of the party, which had suffered many defeats in 1993 provincial and municipal elections, to the Italian People's Party.

In the following elections, the Socialists lost their decades old majority to the new People's Party and the incoming Prodi Commission was quick to establish the new European Anti-fraud Office ( OLAF ).

The 2009 elections again saw a victory for the European People's Party, despite losing the British Conservatives who formed a smaller eurosceptic grouping with other anti-federalist right wing parties.

Following the SED victory in the October 1946 elections, Honecker took his place amongst the SED leadership in the first postwar East German parliament, the German People's Congress ( Deutscher Volkskongress ).

During parliamentary elections in 1999, the seats in Riigikogu were divided as follows: the Centre Party received 28, the Pro Patria Union 18, the Reform Party 18, the People's Party Moderates ( election cartel between Moderates and People's Party ) 17, Coalition Party 7, Country People's Party ( now People's Union ) 7, United People's Party's electoral cartel 6 seats.