2005 in politics
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Years in politics: 2003-2004-2005-2006-2007 - list of years in politics
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Events
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January
- January 1
- The Freedom of Information Act 2000 comes into force in the United Kingdom.
- In Germany, stage IV of the Hartz concept brought together unemployment benefits and social security benefits, despite protests.
- Ruth Lüthi becomes president of the Council of State of Fribourg; Heinz Albicker becomes president of the government of Schaffhausen; Anne-Catherine Lyon becomes president of the Council of State of Vaud; Brigitte Profos becomes Landammann of Zug.
- January 2 - Aníbal Acevedo Vilá takes office as governor of Puerto Rico.
- January 4 - Violence in Iraq, assassination of the Governor of Baghdad, Ali al-Haidri.
- January 5 - Adam Daniel Rotfeld is sworn in as Foreign Minister of Poland.
- January 7 - Isidore Mvouba becomes Prime Minister of the Congo Republic.
- January 14 - Sergey Morozov is inaugurated as governor of the Ulyanovsk Oblast.
- January 24 - Yuliya Tymoshenko is named Prime Minister of Ukraine.
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Deaths
- January 1- Shirley Chisholm, first black woman elected to the U.S. Congress (b. 1924)
- January 1- Robert Matsui, Member of the U.S. Congress from Sacramento, California (b. 1941)
- January 4 - Ali al-Haidri, Governor of Baghdad
- January 10 - James Forman, American civil rights activist (b. 1928)
- January 17 - Zhao Ziyang, reformist Premier of the People's Republic of China and General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (b. 1919)
- February 2 - Zurab Zhvania prime minister of Georgia, is suffocated in a gas leak at a friend's home.
- February 6 - Gnassingbe Eyadema President of Togo since 1967, dies of an illness.
- 14 February - Former Prime Minister of Lebanon Rafiq Hariri is assassinated in Beirut in a massive car bomb explosion.
- March 8 - Aslan Maskhadov rebel President of Chechnya is killed in battle with Russian troops.
- March 28 - Howell Heflin former United States senator from Alabama
- April 2 - Pope John Paul II Head of the Roman Catholic Church and chief of state of the Vatican City dies of a long illness.
- April 6 - Rainier III Prince of Monaco since 1948, second longest-reigning head of state in the world at the time of his death.
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