He was elected president.

1 On 21 May 2005, Judge Møse was re elected President and Judge Ramaroson was elected Vice President.

Lincoln was elected President in 1860.

The new Government then elected Marie Noëlle Thémereau of AE President and re elected Kanak writer and FLNKS member Déwé Gorodey Vice President.

America has now elected its first openly black President.

Mr. Baïdy Diène (Senegal) was elected President of the Council.

President Yudhoyono I come here to speak for 220 million Indonesians as their first directly elected President.

A person like that would have no trouble getting elected president.

Čović was subsequently elected president of this main Croat nationalist party.

Mr. Duarte (Brazil) was elected President of the Conference by acclamation.

President Karzai was elected with 55.4 per cent of the vote.

In October 2002 a woman judge was elected President of the Court.

On 1 October 2005, I was elected President of the Tribunal for a three year term and the Tribunal elected Judge Joseph Akl of Lebanon as Vice President and Judge Hugo Caminos of Argentina as President of the Seabed Disputes Chamber.

President Mahmoud Abbas was elected as the new Palestinian Authority President in fair and free elections, which were internationally monitored.

The Board elected by acclamation H.E. Mr. Ransford A. Smith (Jamaica) as President.

Again there is no legal bar on a woman being elected as President.

The amended rule 31 provides that if, at the opening of a session of the General Assembly, the President for that session has not yet been elected, in accordance with the amended rule 30, the President of the previous session, or the chairman of that delegation from which the President of the previous session was elected, shall preside until the Assembly has elected a President.

In Afghanistan, eight million voters, 40 of them women, chose their first democratically elected President in 5,000 years. In the Palestinian Authority, a democratically elected president offers the hope of a new chance for peace.

In September 1995, I had the honour of being elected President of the General Assembly.

The reconciliation process that will precede the inauguration of the newly elected President has begun.

Paul Raymond Bérenger, Prime Minister of Mauritius, was elected President of the International Meeting by acclamation.

Mr. Dennis Francis (Trinidad and Tobago) was elected President of the Assembly for the tenth session.

My mother miraculously recovered after a serious operation, and this man was elected president of this country.

In his fourth year, he was elected Vice President of the General Student Council of Konkuk University.

Almost exactly three months ago, following 10 years of political crisis, Burundi welcomed a democratically elected President.

The newly elected President of Sri Lanka, Mahinda Rajapakse, has been an abiding friend of the Palestinian people.

The difference is in election and powers, because the president and vice presidents of Republika Srpska are elected directly, while in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina they are elected indirectly.

Judge and former President Guillaume was elected as a member of the Court as from 14 September 1987 and was re elected as from 6 February 1991 and from 6 February 2000.

Ideally, that head of state would be an elected president, rather than a hereditary monarch. Indeed, anything worthwhile that a monarch can do, an elected non executive president can do better not least because an elected official is much less likely to be undermined by the scandals of pampered offspring or degraded by the inevitable hypocrisy and servility of a royal court.

On a proposal by the expert from the United States of America, Ms. K. Headrick (Canada) and Mr. S. Benassai (Italy) were elected President and Vice President respectively.

I was recently elected, as Emeka mentioned, as the President of the South African Chamber of Commerce in America.

On 13 June 2005, the General Assembly elected by acclamation its President for the sixtieth session (decision 59 421).

When 27 candidates obtain the required majority, the President of the General Assembly shall declare the candidates concerned elected.

If the office thus vacated is that of the President, the other officers which constitute the Bureau shall select one of the Vice Presidents to serve as Acting President until the new President has been elected.

The assembly adopted the statute and programme goals and tasks, elected the board of directors and president of the association.

Most CLJ delegates were indirectly elected by ELJ district representatives or by special constituencies 52 were appointed by the President.

We congratulate the newly elected judges to the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea and its new President.

At its 1st meeting, on 28 November, on the proposal of the outgoing President, the COP elected by acclamation Mr. Stéphane Dion, Minister of the Environment of Canada, as its President.

Walter Radermacher, Vice President of the Federal Statistical Office of Germany, was elected Chair of the Committee during its preliminary meeting.

He also stated that the President and Vice President of the organization continued to organize, support and finance activities inside and outside the Cuban territory aimed at overthrowing the constitutionally elected Government.

In a second attempt, on 29 June 2004, when observers were considering the possibility of new congressional elections, Mrs. Thémereau finally received the required vote to be elected President, as did Mrs. Gorodey to be elected Vice President, this being the first time the Territorial Government has been led by two women.13

I extend to you, sir, my personal congratulations and those of the Tribunal on your being elected President of the General Assembly.

Mrs. Mary Robinson had spoken, when she was elected President, of their capacity to rock the cradle and to rock the system.

None of the women was elected to be member of the Presidency BiH at the post war elections (1996 2000), neither for the president co president of FBiH, nor for entity Prime Minister.

I was recently elected President of the Local Youth Council of Slatina, which operates within the framework of the Croatian National Youth Council.