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Parliamentary elections were held in the Federated States of Micronesia on 7 March 2023 to elect the fourteen members of the Congress: ten representatives of the districts, and four senators each representing one of the four states. [1]
The elections of 2019 saw the re-election of the thirteen outgoing senators vying for a new term, including three elected unopposed in their constituencies. The then incumbent President, Peter Christian, however, was defeated as Pohnpei State Senator, leading to the indirect election of David Panuelo as president. The 2021 legislative election led to the reappointment of the ten outgoing deputies.
President Panuelo ran for re-election in 2023, but announced that this election would be his last. [2] The Pacific Islands Forum sent an election observer team led by a senior officer from the Republic of Marshall Islands Electoral Administration. [3]
The Federated States of Micronesia is a federal presidential republic. The president is both head of state and government. There are no political parties in the Federated States of Micronesia, so all candidates and elected members are independent.
The Congress has fourteen members. Four of them represent one of the four federated states, and are elected for a four-year term by universal suffrage and by the citizens of their respective states. The remaining ten are elected by citizens by single majority voting for two-year terms, from ten constituencies divided by population: five in the state of Chuuk, one in the state of Kosrae, three in the state of Pohnpei, and one in the state of Yap. After the legislative election, the President and Vice President are indirectly elected by Congress from among the Senators, for a maximum of two consecutive four-year terms. Their positions as Senators are filled by a new election.
| State | District | Candidate | Votes | % | Notes |
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| Chuuk | At-Large | Wesley Simina | 12,756 | 63.27 | Re-elected |
| Gillian Doone | 3,711 | 18.41 | |||
| Nakama Sana | 3,693 | 18.32 | |||
| Election District 1 | Florencio Singkoro Harper | 2,940 | 83.93 | Re-elected | |
| Juan Martin | 563 | 16.07 | |||
| Election District 2 | Victory Gouland | 3,262 | 92.17 | Re-elected | |
| Tainiro Killion | 277 | 7.83 | |||
| Election District 3 | Perpetua S. Konman | 3,572 | 52.13 | Re-elected | |
| Myron Hashiguchi | 3,280 | 47.87 | |||
| Election District 4 | Tiwiter Aritos | 3,985 | 100 | Re-elected unopposed | |
| Election District 5 | Robson Urak Romlow | 1,155 | 54.87 | Re-elected | |
| Zander Refilong | 580 | 27.55 | |||
| Ruphin Micky | 370 | 17.58 | |||
| Kosrae | At-Large | Aren Palik | 1,836 | 64.08 | Re-elected |
| Yoslyn Sigrah | 1,029 | 35.92 | |||
| Election District | Paliknoa Welly | 2,514 | 100 | Re-elected unopposed | |
| Pohnpei | At-Large | Peter M. Christian | 4,467 | 35.33 | Re-elected |
| William Kostka | 3,906 | 30.89 | |||
| Welson Panuel | 2,225 | 17.60 | |||
| David Panuelo | 2,045 | 16.17 | |||
| Election District 1 | Merlynn Abello-Alfonso | 2,128 | 55.85 | Elected | |
| Ferny Perman | 1,682 | 44.15 | |||
| Election District 2 | Quincy Lawrence | 3,057 | 59.70 | Elected | |
| Dion Neth | 2,064 | 40.30 | |||
| Election District 3 | Esmond Moses | 2,159 | 58.51 | Re-elected | |
| Erick Paul | 1,531 | 41.49 | |||
| Yap | At-Large | Joseph Urusemal | 2,110 | 92.63 | Re-elected |
| Fidelik Thiyer-Fanoway | 168 | 7.37 | |||
| Election District | Isaac Figir | 2,283 | 100 | Re-elected unopposed | |
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On 11 May, the Congress elected Wesley Simina as the new President. Aren Palik was re-elected to the position of the Vice President. Additionally, Esmond Moses was elected Speaker of the Congress. [4]
The Federated States of Micronesia, or simply Micronesia, is an island country in Micronesia, a subregion of Oceania. The federation consists of four states—from west to east, Yap, Chuuk, Pohnpei and Kosrae—that are spread across the western Pacific. Together, the states comprise around 607 islands that cover a longitudinal distance of almost 2,700 km (1,700 mi) just north of the equator. They lie northeast of Indonesia and Papua New Guinea, south of Guam and the Marianas, west of Nauru and the Marshall Islands, east of Palau and the Philippines, about 2,900 km (1,800 mi) north of eastern Australia, 3,400 km (2,100 mi) southeast of Japan, and some 4,000 km (2,485 mi) southwest of the main islands of the Hawaiian Islands.
The politics of the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) takes place in a framework of a federal assembly-independent representative democratic republic. The President of the Federated States of Micronesia is both head of state and head of government. Executive power is exercised by the president and his cabinet, while legislative power is vested in both the president and the Congress. The judiciary is independent of the executive and the legislature.
The president of the Federated States of Micronesia is the head of state and government of the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM). The FSM president, by virtue of his or her office, is the head of the FSM Cabinet and is in charge of the administration and operations of the National Government. The president is assisted by the vice-president, both of whom are elected by the FSM Congress from among the at-large members to serve for four-year terms. The current and tenth president of the FSM is Wesley Simina, who replaced David Panuelo on 11 May 2023.
The Congress of the Federated States of Micronesia has 14 non-partisan members: ten members elected for a two-year term in ten single-seat constituencies and four members elected for a four-year term, one from each state at-large.
Indirect presidential elections were held in the Federated States of Micronesia on May 11, 2007.
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people in Micronesia may face legal difficulties not experienced by non-LGBT residents. Households headed by same-sex couples are not eligible for the same legal protections available to opposite-sex married couples, as same-sex marriage and civil unions are not recognized. Discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation has been illegal since 2018.
Parliamentary elections were held in the Federated States of Micronesia on 8 March 2011, alongside a three-part referendum. As there were no political parties, all 34 candidates ran as independents. For the first time in the country's history, two women ran for election, both in Chuuk State. However, neither was elected.
Wesley W. Simina is a Micronesian politician who has served as the president of the Federated States of Micronesia since 2023. He served as the governor of Chuuk State, one of the four states that constitute the Federated States of Micronesia, from July 2005 to July 2011.
Gerald M. Zackios is a Marshallese politician and diplomat. He was a member of the Legislature of the Marshall Islands (Nitijeļā) from 2000 until 2012. During this period he was Minister in Assistance to the President of Marshall Islands from 2000 until 2001 and Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2001 until 2007. He serves as the Ambassador of the Republic of the Marshall Islands to the United States since June 2016.
Peter Martin Christian Souissa is a Micronesian politician who served as the 8th President of the Federated States of Micronesia, from 11 May 2015 to 11 May 2019.
Parliamentary elections were held in the Federated States of Micronesia on 7 March 2017, alongside a referendum on allowing dual citizenship. Although the proposed constitutional amendment to allow dual citizenship was approved by a majority of voters, it did not pass the threshold of 75% voting in favour in at least three of the four states.
Parliamentary elections were held in the Federated States of Micronesia on 5 March 2019, alongside a referendum on calling a Constitutional Convention. All 14 seats in Congress were up for election, and all 13 incumbents standing for re-election were returned to Congress.
David W. Panuelo is a Micronesian politician who served as the president of the Federated States of Micronesia from 2019 to 2023.
Ambilos Iehsi was a Micronesian politician. He served as a member of the House of Representatives and Senate of the Congress of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands between 1967 until 1979, and then as Secretary of Resources and Development of the Federated States of Micronesia.
Parliamentary elections were held in the Federated States of Micronesia on 2 March 2021, to elect ten of the fourteen seats of the Congress of Micronesia for a two-year term. There are no political parties and all candidates stood as independents.
Events in the year 2023 in the Federated States of Micronesia.
A referendum on nine proposed amendments to the constitution was held in Micronesia on 4 July 2023. Eight of the amendments were proposed by the Constitutional Convention elected in 2019, and one amendment was proposed by Congress. All nine amendments passed, and were officially ratified by President Simina on 4 October 2023.
The separatist movement in the Faichuk Islands is a political movement calling for autonomy and independence for the Faichuk Islands located in the state of Chuuk, in the Federated States of Micronesia, a federal country also made up of the states of Kosrae, Pohnpei and Yap.
Events in the year 2024 in the Federated States of Micronesia.
Esmond Burdett Moses is a Micronesian politician from Pohnpei State. Since 2023, he has served as the Speaker of the Congress of the Federated States of Micronesia. He previously served as Vice Speaker of the Congress from 2019 to 2023.
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