Editing 2003 in politics (section)

===February===
*February 1: [[Christoph Eymann]] becomes president of the government of [[Basel-Stadt]].
*February 3: [[John William Snow|John Snow]] is made U.S. treasury secretary.
*February 4: [[Federal Republic of Yugoslavia|Yugoslavia]] is renamed to [[Serbia and Montenegro]] converting the federal republic to a looser union.
*February 5: The head of the pro-[[Moscow]] administration of [[Chechnya]], announces the dismissal of their Prime Minister, who is later replaced by [[Anatoly Popov]].
*February 6: [[Yegor Borisov]] becomes prime minister of [[Sakha Republic|Sakha]].
*February 9: Presidential elections in [[Montenegro]] fail again when the turnout is below 50%.
*February 14: New high commissioner [[Sandra Lee-Vercoe]] arrives at [[Niue]].
*February 16: [[Tassos Papadopoulos]] wins [[Elections in Cyprus|presidential elections]] in [[Cyprus]].
*February 17: [[Oleg Budargin]] takes office as governor of [[Taymyr Autonomous Okrug|Taymyr]].
*February 25: [[Roh Moo Hyun]] takes office as president of [[South Korea]]; Parliament later approves [[Goh Kun]] as prime minister, who would later appoint [[Yoon Young Kwan]] as foreign minister.
*February 28: [[Silvan Shalom]] is approved as Foreign Minister of [[Israel]].