In the 2002 national election, a new party founded by former PLN Congressman and government Minister Ottón Solís captured 26 % of the vote, forcing a runoff election for the first time in the country's history.

No Chancellor has ever come from the CSU, although Franz Josef Strauss and Edmund Stoiber were CDU / CSU candidates for Chancellor in the 1980 election and the 2002 election, respectively, which were both won by the SPD.

There have been several coup attempts since, but he gained firm control of the country after stepping down temporarily and winning a presidential election in 2002.

In the 2002 election the party lost again.

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 the run up to the 2002 election the CSU / CDU held a huge lead in the opinion polls and Stoiber famously remarked that "... this election is like a football match where it's the second half and my team is ahead by 2 – 0.

( This also contrasted unfavorably with Merkel's robust support for his candidacy in the 2002 election.

Before the 2002 election FC Bayern General Manager Uli Hoeneß expressed his support for Stoiber and the CSU.

At other times, for example after the 2002 federal election, a coalition between the FDP and CDU / CSU was impossible primarily because of the weak results of the FDP.

Kenny defeated Richard Bruton, Phil Hogan and Gay Mitchell in the leadership election, which was triggered by the resignation of Michael Noonan following the 2002 general election.

The next election for the Bundestag was 22 September 2002.

Despite the crises of the preceding electoral period, in the 2002 federal election, the Greens increased their total to 55 seats ( in a smaller parliament ) and 8. 6 %.

At the general election of 2002 that it made a breakthrough, getting 6 Teachtaí Dála ( TDs ) elected to the Dáil with 4 % of the national vote.

Quayle, then working as an investment banker in Phoenix, was mentioned as a candidate for Governor of Arizona prior to the 2002 election, but he declined to run.

He was constitutionally barred from running in the 2002 election, which was won by Mwai Kibaki.

* 2002 – Zimbabwe is suspended from the Commonwealth on charges of human rights abuses and of electoral fraud, following a turbulent presidential election.

In 2005, the PDS, renamed The Left Party. PDS ( Die Linkspartei. PDS ), entered an electoral alliance with the western Germany-based Labour and Social Justice – The Electoral Alternative ( WASG ) and won 8. 7 % of the vote in Germany's September 2005 federal elections ( more than double the 4 % share achieved by the PDS alone in the 2002 election ).

In the 2002 election, the party's vote sank back to 4. 0 %, and was able to seat only two back-benchers elected directly from their districts, Petra Pau and Gesine Lötzsch.

After the Referendum on the Reduction of the Mandate of the President of the French Republic, 2000 ), the length of the term was reduced from 7 to 5 years ; the first election to a shorter term was held in 2002.

In the 2002 French presidential election, the two contenders described by the media as having the possibility to win were Jacques Chirac and Lionel Jospin, who represented the largest two political parties in France at the time.

According to Christopher Ehret ( 2002: 35 – 36 ), Proto-Afroasiatic was spoken c. 11, 000 BC at the latest and possibly as early as c. 16, 000 BC.

An the other hand, the armed forces of the MPLA ( now the official armed forces of the Angolan state ) and of UNITA fought each other until the leader of UNITA, Jonas Savimbi, was killed in action, in 2002.

In 2002 one was lost during the civil war with UNITA forces.

From the mid-1980s through at least 1992, the United States was the primary source of military and other support for the UNITA rebel movement, which was led from its creation through 2002 by Jonas Savimbi.

The Intelligent Mechatronics Lab, directed by Hiroshi Kobayashi at the Tokyo University of Science, has developed an android head called Saya, which was exhibited at Robodex 2002 in Yokohama, Japan.

From 2002 to July 2008 under Turkmen calendar reform, the month of August was named after Alp Arslan.

The electricity distribution system was privatized in 2002.

According to estimates by the National Statistical Survey, the rate of labor emigration was twice as higher in 2001 and 2002.

Furthermore, in 2002, Bligh's great-great-grandson Lord Clifton, the heir-apparent to the Earldom of Darnley, argued that the Ashes urn should not be returned to Australia because it belonged to his family and was given to the MCC only for safe keeping.

In 2002, a theoretical attack, termed the " XSL attack ", was announced by Nicolas Courtois and Josef Pieprzyk, purporting to show a weakness in the AES algorithm due to its simple description .< ref >

* In 2002, Fleming was named in the BBC's list of the 100 Greatest Britons following a nationwide vote.

In 2002, O ' Donohue launched a court action that argued the Act of Settlement violates the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, but the case was dismissed by the court, which found that, as the Act of Settlement is part of the Canadian constitution, the Charter of Rights and Freedoms does not have supremacy over it.

Every game during the 2002 season was sold out.

Vick, who saw minimal playing time in 2001, playing backup and learning the system under then-starting quarterback Chris Chandler, was designated starting quarterback for the 2002 season.

The 2002 season was the Falcons ' first in the more geographically-accurate NFC South upon NFL realignment.

A beta test version of AIX 5L for IA-64 systems was released, but according to documents released in the SCO v. IBM lawsuit, less than forty licenses for the finished Monterey Unix were ever sold before the project was terminated in 2002.

Remarkably " Aster " was also the name given to a Dutch Supercomputer much later, in 2002.

18-bis Legge 91 / 1981 mainly for the abnormal signing in 2002 – 03 season, ( such as Davide Bombardini for € 11 million account value, which the flopped player exchange boosted 2002 – 03 season result ) and the tax payment of 2002 – 03 season was rescheduled.

In 1998 the 2, 000th DB7 was built, and in 2002 the 6, 000th, exceeding production of all previous DB models.

The WSF became a periodic meeting: in 2002 and 2003 it was held again in Porto Alegre and became a rallying point for worldwide protest against the American invasion of Iraq.

The first European Social Forum ( ESF ) was held in November 2002 in Florence.