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2008 Marshall Islands Presidential Election
An indirect presidential election was held in the Marshall Islands on 7 January 2008. The parliament elected in November 2007 elected a new president after it formally convened. The opposition coalition elected a new president, Litokwa Tomeing, with a vote of 18 to 15 in favour, beating the incumbent president Kessai Note. A new Speaker from the opposition, Senator Jurelang Zedkaia, was also elected, defeating Senator Alvin Jacklick in another 18–15 vote. Senator Alik Alik from the United Democratic Party (the former government party) was elected as Vice-Speaker with 17 votes against 16 for Kaibuke Kabua.Aenet Rowa"Marshall Islands Has New President and Parliament Leaders", Yokwe Online, January 6, 2008. Tomeing had defected from the United Democratic Party to the opposition United People's Party before the election. References 2008 elections in Oceania Presidential election 2008 File:2008 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Lehman Brothers went bankrupt follow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marshall Islands
The Marshall Islands ( mh, Ṃajeḷ), officially the Republic of the Marshall Islands ( mh, Aolepān Aorōkin Ṃajeḷ),'' () is an independent island country and microstate near the Equator in the Pacific Ocean, slightly west of the International Date Line. Geographically, the country is part of the larger island group of Micronesia. The country's population of 58,413 people (at the 2018 World Bank Census) is spread out over five islands and 29 coral atolls, comprising 1,156 individual islands and islets. The capital and largest city is Majuro. It has the largest portion of its territory composed of water of any sovereign state, at 97.87%. The islands share maritime boundaries with Wake Island to the north, Kiribati to the southeast, Nauru to the south, and Federated States of Micronesia to the west. About 52.3% of Marshall Islanders (27,797 at the 2011 Census) live on Majuro. In 2016, 73.3% of the population were defined as being "urban". The UN also indicates a population d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2007 Marshall Islands General Election
General elections were held in the Marshall Islands on 19 November 2007. Campaign One of the election issues was whether to switch recognition from Taiwan to the China, with the opposition in favour of recognising China instead. However, Aelon Kein Ad stated on 28 November that they would not end ties with the ROC if they won the election. Conduct Due to delays in opening the polling stations (while they were meant to open at 7 AM, some did not open until midday and one did not open before 4 PM) polling continued until after midnight. While only 36,000 people were eligible to vote, the large number of postal ballots meant that results were not to be known before 4 December."Opposition declares win in Marshalls Election" Xinhua, 30 November 2007. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Litokwa Tomeing
Iroij Litokwa Tomeing (14 October 1939 – 12 October 2020) was the President of the Marshall Islands from January 2008 until October 2009. Biography Early and personal life Litokwa Tomeing was born on Wotje Atoll, in the Japanese-administered Marshall Islands, on October 14, 1939. From 1950 until 1954, Tomeing attended the Catholic Elementary School, first in Likiep and then in Jaluit. In 1961, Tomeing graduated from PIC High School in Pohnpei. He studied at the University of Hawaii from 1970 until 1972 on an extension program. Tomeing and his wife, Arlin, had seven children and several grandchildren. Litokwa died on 12 October 2020, in Springdale, Arkansas, United States. Career Tomeing was a traditional chief. Giff Johnson"Opposition Takes Control Of Marshall Islands Government", ''Pacific Magazine'', January 7, 2008. He became a principal and teacher at Ebon Elementary School in 1961, and remained with the school until 1964. He then moved to Majuro, where he taught at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kessai Note
Kessai Hesa Note (born August 7, 1950 in Ailinglaplap) was President of the Marshall Islands from 2000 to 2008. Elected in 1979 alongside Litokwa Tomeing, Note is one of the two longest-serving members of Nitijeļā. He was the Minister of Internal affairs from 1985 to 1986, and Minister of Transportation and communications from 1986 to 1987. Having served as Speaker of the Nitijeļā since 1988, he was elected President in 2000. Note is the first commoner, rather than an Iroijlaplap or traditional chief, to be elected to the Presidency. Giff Johnson"Opposition Takes Control Of Marshall Islands Government", ''Pacific Magazine'', January 7, 2008. He is a member of the United Democratic Party, and was reelected by parliament in January 2004, receiving 20 votes, while Justin deBrum received 9. On January 7, 2008, following the November 2007 general election, he was defeated in his bid for re-election in a vote of Parliament, receiving 15 votes against 18 for Litokwa Tomeing. Not ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jurelang Zedkaia
Iroijlaplap Jurelang Zedkaia (13 July 1950 – 7 October 2015) was a Marshallese politician and Iroijlaplap. He served as the President of the Marshall Islands from 2009 to 2012. He was elected as the country's 5th head of state on October 26, 2009, following the ouster of his predecessor, Litokwa Tomeing, in the country's first successful vote of no confidence. Biography Zedkaia was the ''Iroijlaplap'', or traditional paramount chief, of Majuro Atoll, which is the location of the country's capital, Arno and Mili atolls. Before becoming president in 2009, Zedkaia was a five-term elected Senator in the Nitijela, or legislature. He became vice speaker of the Nitijela, before becoming the Speaker of the legislature in January 2008. Zedkaia worked in pharmacy for 15 years and 6 years in the Majuro Atoll Local Government. Zedikaia entered the Nitijela in 1981 as representative and senator of Majuro Atoll, a post he served in the duration of his time in the Nitijela. President of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alvin Jacklick
Alvin Jacklick (born 1949) is a Marshallese politician and government minister. In the late 1980s he was elected mayor of Ebeye, at a time when he was described as a "young radical". He was involved in the projects of the Kwajalein Atoll Development Corporation. Jacklick was the Speaker of Nitijela, the Marshallese Parliament, from 2010 to 2011. In the 2015 general election Jacklick was elected to the Legislature of the Marshall Islands for Kwajalein. In January 2016 he was narrowly defeated in his bid for the Presidency of the Marshall Islands by Casten Nemra by a 17–16 vote. He has also been involved with diplomatic relations with Taiwan. He was Foreign Minister from 2000–2001. In 2014 he was one of the outspoken Marshallese senators against the nomination of an ex-Lebanese general as envoy to UNESCO The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) aimed at promoting world peace and security thr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alik Alik
Alik L. Alik (born January 26, 1953) is a diplomat and politician from the Federated States of Micronesia who was the Vice President of the Federated States of Micronesia from May 11, 2007 to May 11, 2015. Born in Kosrae, Alik completed high school in 1973 and then left the island for education in the United States, attending United States International University in Hawaii from 1973 to 1976 and then Graceland College in Iowa from 1976 to 1979. After returning to Kosrae, Alik worked as a student counselor at the Kosrae High School for two years. In 1982 he became a Foreign Service Officer for the FSM Department of External Affairs and promoted to Deputy Chief for the Division of South Pacific Affairs. In 1989 Alik became first Micronesian ambassador to Fiji and served until 1998. While in Fiji he was also a cross-accredited as FSM's Ambassador to: Israel, Tonga, Nauru, Kiribati, Samoa, Tuvalu, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu Vanuatu ( or ; ), officially the Republic of Vanuatu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United Democratic Party (Marshall Islands)
The United Democratic Party is a political party in the Marshall Islands. At the last legislative elections, 17 November 2003, no parties participated, though part of the members could be members of either the Kabua Party or the United Democratic Party. The United Democratic Party, while being one of the two most popular unincorporated political parties in the Marshall Islands, alongside the Kabua Coalition, has not had power since 2008, although Ruben Zackhras Ruben R. Zackhras (4 December 1947 – 1 January 2019) was a Marshallese politician. He was acting President of the Marshall Islands from 21 October 2009 to 26 October 2009. He previously served as Minister of Finance from 1992 to 1998. Zackhra ... was an acting president for 12 days in 2009. History The United Democratic Party was formed after the independence of the Marshall Islands and gained their first presidency in 1997 for 25 days and later in 2000 for 8 years. References Political parties in the Marshall ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United People's Party (Marshall Islands)
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United People's Party may refer to: * United Peoples' Party (Bangladesh) * Estonian United People's Party, later renamed the Constitution Party * United Peoples Party (Fiji) * United People's Party (Jamaica) * United People's Party (Liberia) * United People's Party (Malaysia) (other), several * United People's Party (Poland) * United People's Party (Saint Kitts and Nevis) * United People's Party (Singapore) * United People's Party (Sint Maarten) * United People's Party (Zimbabwe) See also * UPP (other) UPP may stand for: ;Political parties *Union for Peru, Unión por el Perú, a liberal or centrist political party in Peru *Union for Promoting Progress (União Promotora para o Progresso), a political party in Macao *United People's Party (disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2008 Elections In Oceania
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2008 In The Marshall Islands
8 (eight) is the natural number following 7 and preceding 9. In mathematics 8 is: * a composite number, its proper divisors being , , and . It is twice 4 or four times 2. * a power of two, being 2 (two cubed), and is the first number of the form , being an integer greater than 1. * the first number which is neither prime nor semiprime. * the base of the octal number system, which is mostly used with computers. In octal, one digit represents three bits. In modern computers, a byte is a grouping of eight bits, also called an octet. * a Fibonacci number, being plus . The next Fibonacci number is . 8 is the only positive Fibonacci number, aside from 1, that is a perfect cube. * the only nonzero perfect power that is one less than another perfect power, by Mihăilescu's Theorem. * the order of the smallest non-abelian group all of whose subgroups are normal. * the dimension of the octonions and is the highest possible dimension of a normed division algebra. * the first num ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
