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 PresidentTommy 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.[1]
This was the first election in Palau in which presidential candidates ran with a declared vice-presidential candidates.[1] In previous elections, the President and vice-presidents had been elected separately, and the winners of those elections served as a "national leadership team".[1]
