events
May 2, 1999
Panamanian general election: Mireya Moscoso becomes the first woman to be elected President of Panama.
1999 Panamanian general election
General elections were held in Panama on 2 May 1999, electing both a new President of the Republic and a new Legislative Assembly.
Mireya Moscoso
Mireya Elisa Moscoso Rodríguez is a Panamanian politician who served as the President of Panama from 1999 to 2004. She is the country's first and to date only female president.
List of heads of state of Panama
This article lists the heads of state of Panama since the short-lived first independence from the Republic of New Granada in 1840 and the final separation from Colombia in 1903. Since 1904 the head of state of Panama has been the President of Panama.