This is a list of events relating to politics in 1997.
Events
January
February
March
April
May
June
- June 1 - A Socialist Party-led Centre-left coalition win the second-round in the 1997 French legislative elections
- June 1 - Hugo Banzer wins the Presidential elections in Bolivia
- June 5 - Anticipating a coup attempt, President Pascal Lissouba of the Republic of the Congo orders the detention of his rival Denis Sassou Nguesso, initiating the Second Republic of the Congo civil war
- June 10 - â Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot orders the killing of his defense chief, Son Sen, and 11 of Sen's family members, before fleeing to his northern stronghold
- June 11 - In the United Kingdom, the House of Commons votes for a total ban on handguns
- June 26 - Bertie Ahern is appointed as the 10th Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland and Mary Harney is appointed as the 16th, and first female, Tánaiste, after their parties, Fianna Fáil and the Progressive Democrats respectively, win the 1997 General Election
- June 27 - Tajikistan president Emomali Rahmon and United Tajik Opposition<nowiki/>leader Sayid Abdulloh Nuri signed the General Agreement on the Establishment of Peace and National Accord in Tajikistan and the Moscow Protocol in Moscow, Russia, ending the Tajikistani Civil War
July
August
September
October
November
December
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