s elected as the candidate for the presidential election during the SWAPO congress held on the 30 May 2004, defeating two other candidates, <a href="//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nahas_Angula" title="Nahas Angula">Nahas Angula</a> and <a href="//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidipo_Hamutenya" title="Hidipo Hamutenya">Hidipo Hamutenya</a>. The latter had been dismissed from his post of Foreign Affairs minister by Nujoma barely two days before the congress. Pohamba was elected with a large majority and was sworn in on 21 M