Presidency
On 23 July 2001, the People's Consultative Assembly assembled. Its members unanimously removed Wahid from office and elected Megawati. She thus became the fourth woman to lead a Muslim nation (after Benazir Bhutto of Pakistan and Khaleda Zia and Hasina Wajed of Bangladesh).
She ran for reelection in the 2004 presidential election, hoping to become the first woman elected in her own right as head of state in a Muslim nation. However, she was defeated by Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono in the second round, on 20 September 2004. She famously refused to congratulate the new president.
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Famous quotes containing the word presidency:
“I once told Nixon that the Presidency is like being a jackass caught in a hail storm. You’ve got to just stand there and take it.”
—Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)
“... how often the Presidency has simply meant that a man shall be abused, distrusted, and worked to death while he is filling the great office, and that he should drop into unmerited oblivion when he has left the White House ...”
—M. E. W. Sherwood (1826–1903)
“Some of the offers that have come to me would never have come if I had not been President. That means these people are trying to hire not Calvin Coolidge, but a former President of the United States. I can’t make that kind of use of the office.... I can’t do anything that might take away from the Presidency any of its dignity, or any of the faith people have in it.”
—Calvin Coolidge (1872–1933)