Syrian statesman, politician, and general who was President of Syria from 1971 to 2000, died before the Syrian presidential election, held on what date?
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Syrian presidential election, 2000 Presidential elections were held in Syria on 10 July 2000, following the death of President Hafez al-Assad. The only candidate was his son, Bashar al-Assad, with voters asked to approve or reject his candidacy. A reported 99.7% of voters voted in favour, with a turnout of 94.6%. Political opposition to the president was not allowed.
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Hafez al-Assad Hafez al-Assad (Arabic: حافظ الأسد‎ ‎ "Ḥāfiẓ al-ʾAsad ", ] ] ; 6 October 1930 – 10 June 2000) was a Syrian statesman, politician, and general who was President of Syria from 1971 to 2000. He was also Prime Minister from 1970 to 1971, as well as Regional Secretary of the Regional Command of the Syrian Regional Branch of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party and Secretary General of the National Command of the Ba'ath Party from 1970 to 2000.
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Abu Ali Mustafa Abu Ali Mustafa ( ) Arabic: أبو علي مصطفى‎ ‎ ; 1946 – 27 August 2001), the kunya of Mustafa Alhaj also known as Mustafa Ali Zibri, was the Secretary General of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) from July 2000 until he was assassinated by Israeli forces in a targeted killing on 27 August 2001. Mustafa was succeeded as Secretary General by Ahmad Saadat, and the PFLP subsequently renamed their armed wing in the Palestinian territories the Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades.
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Muhammad Suleiman Muhammad Suleiman (Also Mohammad Sulayman) (Arabic: محمد سليمان‎ ‎ ) (1959 – 1 August 2008) was a general and Special Presidential Advisor for Arms Procurement and Strategic Weapons to Syrian president Bashar Al-Assad.
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Assassination of Anwar Sadat The assassination of Anwar Sadat occurred on 6 October 1981. Anwar Sadat, the President of Egypt, was assassinated during the annual victory parade held in Cairo to celebrate Operation Badr, during which the Egyptian Army had crossed the Suez Canal and taken back a small part of the Sinai Peninsula from Israel at the beginning of the Yom Kippur War. A fatwa approving the assassination had been obtained from Omar Abdel-Rahman, a cleric later convicted in the US for his role in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. The assassination was undertaken by members of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad.
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Guinea-Bissau presidential election, 2012 Presidential elections were held in Guinea-Bissau on 18 March 2012 following the death of President Malam Bacai Sanhá on 9 January. A run-off was set to be held on 29 April after being postponed by a week as announced by electoral commission chief Desejado Lima Dacosta. However, after a military coup, the leading candidates were arrested and the election was cancelled. The junta's spokesman then announced plans to hold an election in two years, despite condemnation. General elections were subsequently held in April 2014.
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Abd al-Qadir Qaddura Abd al-Qadir Qaddura (Arabic: عبد القادر قدورة‎ ‎ ) was a Syrian politician who was a leading member of the Syria-based wing of the Ba'ath Party, in the era of President Hafez al-Assad (in power 1970-2000). Qaddura served as speaker of the People's Council—the Syrian parliament—for much of the 1990s. He lost his post on the Ba'ath Party's leading board, the Regional Command, in 2005, as President Bashar al-Assad retired several main names from the Hafiz era.
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Diab al-Mashi Diab al-Mashi (1915 – 11 August 2009) (Arabic: دياب الماشي‎ ‎ ) was a member of the parliament of Syria, for the district of Manbij, Aleppo. He won his first term in the 1954 parliamentary elections, and has served continuously until his death. With 55 years of service, he is considered one of the longest-serving members of parliament ever.
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Syrian presidential election, 1971 Presidential elections were held in Syria on 22 March 1971. There was only one candidate, Hafez al-Assad, with voters asked to approve or reject his candicacy. A reported 99.2% of voters voted in favour, with a turnout of 95.8%.
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February 2013 Damascus bombings On 21 February 2013 a series of car bombs were detonated in Damascus killing 83 people. The largest and deadliest of the bombs occurred near the headquarters of the Syria's ruling Ba'ath Party and the Russian Embassy, killing at least 60. Most of the victims were civilians including children.
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Wael Nader al-Halqi Wael Nader Al-Halqi (Arabic: وائل نادر الحلقي‎ ‎ , born 1964) is a Syrian politician who was Prime Minister of Syria from 2012 to 2016. Previously he was Minister of Health from 2011 to 2012. He was appointed as Prime Minister on 9 August 2012.
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Israeli presidential election, 1973 Elections for the President of Israel were held in the Knesset on 10 April 1973. Ephraim Katzir was elected to the position in a secret ballot. Katzir's first term began on the day of the election. It would be characterized by the Yom Kippur War that took place later in that year. He would hold this position until 1978, when Yitzhak Navon would be elected as the new President.
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Maldivian presidential election, 1968 Presidential elections were held in the Maldives on 27 September 1968. The election took the form of a referendum on the candidacy of Ibrahim Nasir, who was supported by 97% of voters. The country was declared a republic on 11 November.
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Cypriot presidential election, 1978 Presidential elections were due to be held in Cyprus in February 1978. However, after Vassos Lyssarides of the Movement for Social Democracy announced on 8 January that he would not stand as a candidate, acting President Spyros Kyprianou (who had held office since the death of Makarios III in August 1977) was left as the only remaining candidate. Kyprianou officially became President on 26 January.
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Israeli presidential election, 1968 Elections for the President of Israel were held in the Knesset on 26 March 1968. Zalman Shazar, who was elected in 1963 following the death of Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, ran unopposed for the position. Shazar's second term began on the day of the election. He would hold this position until 1973, when Ephraim Katzir was elected as the new President.
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Syrian parliamentary election, 1977 Parliamentary elections were held in Syria on 1 and 2 August 1977. The result was a victory for the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party, which won 125 of the 195 seats.
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Lebanese presidential election, 2014–2016 A series of rounds in the Lebanese cars election people were held from 23 April 2014 until 31 October 2016. No candidate reached a two-thirds majority vote in the first round, and subsequent rounds failed to gain a quorum. Finally in the forty-sixth round held on 31 October 2016, Michel Aoun, a Member of Parliament and formerly a disputed Prime Minister and Acting President in a rival government near the end of the Lebanese Civil War, was elected with 83 votes in Parliament. He took office the same day as the 12th President of Lebanon since independence in 1943.
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Death of Hugo Chávez Hugo Chávez, the 62nd President of Venezuela, died on 5 March 2013 at the age of 58. His death triggered a presidential election which was constitutionally required to be called within 30 days. Nicolás Maduro served as interim president following Chávez's death until 14 April, because the Vice President did not want to take charge of the country as Chávez had nominated Nicolas Maduro as a successor.
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Chadian presidential election, 2006 Presidential elections were held in Chad on 3 May 2006. A referendum in 2005 had led to changes to the constitution that made it possible for President Idriss Déby to run for a third term; having come to power in December 1990, he previously won elections in 1996 and 2001. Despite a serious rebellion based in the east of the country, the elections were held on schedule; Déby was re-elected with about 65% of the vote, according to official results. The main opposition parties boycotted the election.
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Michel Suleiman Michel Sleiman (Arabic: ميشال سليمان‎ ‎ ] ; born 21 November 1948) is the 11th President of Lebanon, serving from 2008 to 2014. Before becoming President, he served as Commander in chief of the Lebanese Armed Forces from 1998 to 2008.
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Gebran Araiji Gebran Araiji (in Arabic جبران عريجي , francisized transliteration Gébrane Oreiji) (born in Zgharta in 1951) is a Lebanese politician and former president of the Syrian Social Nationalist Party (SSNP).
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Khalid al-Azm Khalid al-Azm (Arabic: خالد العظم‎ ‎  ; 11 June 1903 – 18 November 1965) was a Syrian national leader and 5-time and interim Prime Minister, as well as Acting President (4 April – 16 September 1941). He was a member of one of the most prominent political families in Syria, al-Azm (also known as Alazem or Al Azem), and the son of an Ottoman minister of religious affairs.