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2003 In PoliticsYears in politics: 2001-2002-2003-2004-2005 - list of years in politics Events January 1 - January 1: Luiz Incio Lula da Silva takes office as president of Brazil. His cabinet includes Celso Amorim as foreign minister; Antnio Waldez Ges da Silva becomes Governor of Amap, Carlos Eduardo de Souza Braga becomes governor of Amazonas, Paulo Csar Hartung Gomes becomes governor of Esprito Santo, Blairo Borges Maggi becomes governor of Mato Grosso, Simo Robison Oliveira Jatene becomes governor of Par, Cssio Rodrigues da Cunha Lima becomes governor of Paraba, Roberto Requio de Mello e Silva becomes governor of Paran, Jos Wellington Barroso de Arajo Dias becomes governor of Piau, Wilma Maria de Faria becomes governor of Rio Grande do Norte, Germano Antnio Rigotto becomes governor of Rio Grande do Sul, Ivo Narciso Cassol becomes governor of Rondnia, and Marcelo de Carvalho Miranda becomes governor of Tocantins.
- January 1: Pavel Chernov takes office as prime minister of Karelia.
- January 1: Pascal Couchepin takes office as President of the Confederation and Interior Minister of Switzerland; Ruth Metzler-Arnold becomes vice president; Claude Lsser becomes president of the Council of State of Fribourg, Stefan Engler president of the government of Graubnden, Grald Schaller president of the government of Canton of Jura, Margrit Fischer-Willimann Schultheiss of Luzern, Christian Wanner Landammann of Solothurn, and Jean-Claude Mermoud president of the Council of State of Vaud, and Walter Suter Landammann of Zug.
- January 1: Kenneth W. Dam becomes acting treasury secretary of the United States; Bill Richardson takes office as Governor of New Mexico and Jennifer Granholm as Governor of Michigan.
January 2-January 7 January 8-January 14 January 15-January 31 February March-June July-September October 1-October 7 October 8-October 31 November 1-November 7 November 8-November 30 December Deaths January-February March-August - March 1: Fidel Snchez Hernndez, former president of El Salvador (1967-1972)
- March 10 Bernard Dowiyogo president of Nauru.
- March 12 Zoran Djindjic prime minister of Serbia
- March 30: Valentin Pavlov, former prime minister of the Soviet Union (1991)
- April 30: Aureliano Chaves, former Brazilian vice president (1979-1985)
- May 15: Constantin Dascalescu, former prime minister of Romania (1982-1989)
- June 1? Johnny Paul Koroma President of Sierra Leone 1997-1998.
- June 10: Donald Regan, former U.S. treasury secretary (1981-1985) and White House chief of staff (1985-1987)
- June 25 Lester Maddox segregationist governor of Georgia from 1967 to 1971.
- June 26: Strom Thurmond, longtime U.S. senator
- August 16: Idi Amin, former president of Uganda (1971-1979)
- August 19: Carlos Roberto Reina, former president of Honduras (1994-1998)
- August 20: Igor Farkhutdinov, Russian politician, governor of Sakhalin (killed in plane crash).
- August 23: Michael Kijana Wamalwa, sitting vice-president of Kenya
September-December External links - Detailed chronologies at Rulers.org: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December
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