Palau,officially the Republic of Palau,is an island country in the Micronesia subregion of Oceania in the western Pacific Ocean. The republic consists of approximately 340 islands and connects the western chain of the Caroline Islands with parts of the Federated States of Micronesia.
Kuniwo Nakamura was a Palauan politician who served as the President of Palau from 1993 to 2001. He had earlier served as Vice President of Palau from 1989 to 1993,under Ngiratkel Etpison.
Elias Camsek Chin is a Palauan politician. He served as the Vice President of Palau from 1 January 2005 to 15 January 2009. He was elected as the president of the Senate of Palau from 16 January 2013 to 19 January 2017.
Ngiratkel Etpison was a politician and businessman from Palau. Etpison was elected President in 1988 and served from 1989 until 1993,becoming the country’s first elected president to serve a full term in office.
General elections were held in Palau on 4 November 2008 to elect the President and members of the National Congress. The presidential election was won by Johnson Toribiong. Incumbent President Tommy Remengesau was ineligible to run because he had served the maximum two consecutive terms allowed and announced that he would run for a seat in the Senate.
Leilani Reklai is a Palauan politician and businesswoman. She has served as the chairperson of the board of directors of the Palau National Communications Corporation.
Roman Tmetuchl was a Palauan political leader and businessman. He grew up in Japanese-controlled Palau and joined the Kempeitai,the Japanese secret police,during World War II. After the war,he became the leader of Palau's Liberal Party. He worked in the Congress of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands from 1964 to 1978 and advocated for Palau gaining a separate status from the rest of Micronesia. He became governor of Airai and engaged in three unsuccessful Palauan presidential campaigns. As a businessman,Tmetuchl led several construction projects for his business holdings and for the Palauan community,including the Palau International Airport and a Seventh-Day Adventist clinic.
The following is an alphabetical list of topics related to the Republic of Palau.
Peter Lawrence Naoya Sugiyama was a Palauan politician.
Akiko C. Bedor Sugiyama is a Palauan politician,and widow of Palauan senator Peter Sugiyama. As late as 1995,she was the only woman who had ever been elected to the Palau National Congress. In 2005,she was elected governor of Ngardmau in a special election after the impeachment of Schwartz Tudong over the misuse of public funds. Along with Vicky Kanai of Airai,she was the first woman to be elected governor of any of the states of Palau.
General elections were held in Palau on 6 November 2012. Former president Tommy Remengesau defeated his successor,incumbent Johnson Toribiong,who had been elected in 2008. Antonio Bells was elected vice-president,defeating Kerai Mariur,who had finished first in the primary elections on 26 September.
J. Uduch Sengebau Senior is a Palauan lawyer,judge,and politician who has served as the Vice President of Palau since 2021. She was previously a member of the Senate of Palau from 2013 until she took office as Vice President.
Palau has several traditional chiefs of its 16 states. A factor that resulted in the decline of chiefly authority in Palau was the introduction of elected governors,called upon in the Constitution of Palau which came into effect on 1 January 1981.
Temmy L. Shmull is a Palauan politician who served as Governor of Peleliu for 3 terms from January 2013 to January 2022. He previously served as the Minister of State of Palau from 2001 to 2009 and was also the vice president of Palau National Olympic Committee.
General elections were held in Palau on 5 November 2024 to elect a President and the National Congress. Incumbent President Surangel Whipps Jr. faced former president Tommy Remengesau Jr. in the election,and was reelected in a landslide. This was the first presidential election where Remengesau lost.
Sabino Anastacio is a Palauan politician who has been speaker of the House of Delegates of Palau since January 2013.
Emais Roberts is a Palauan politician and physician who has served as Governor of Peleliu since 2022. He previously served as the country's Minister of Health from 2017 to 2021 and led the response to the COVID-19 pandemic in Palau.
Jackson R. Ngiraingas is a Palauan politician and businessman who served as Governor of Peleliu from 1995 to 2001 and 2004 to 2009. He resigned during his fourth term to become Minister of Public Infrastructure from 2009 to 2013.
