for the Navajo and US Flags which flew for the Shelly Jim Administration were retired and new ones flown. Navajo Nation presidential election, 2015 During the Navajo Nation primary election on August 26, 2014, President Ben Shelly lost his bid for a second term with only 2,446 votes from out of 110 chapters. Former Arizona representative Chris Deschene and former two-term Navajo Nation president Joe Shirley Jr. were to move on to the general election, but the Navajo Supreme Court suspended the 2014 general election, and the Council subsequently delayed the election further. Ben Shelly's term ends January 13, 2015. As determined by the Navajo Nation Code §1006, the Speaker of the Navajo Council shall assume the duties of the office in the event a vacancy of both the president and vice president. Navajo Nation president interim appointee (2015) In a controversial appointment, Ben Shelly was designated interim president; contradicting Navajo Nation Code § 1006 in resolutions referenced as CD-80-14 and CD-81-14. on May 12, 2015, Ben Shelly and Rex Lee Jim finished their one term which was unprecedentedly extended another five months, after problems with the disqualification of presidential hopeful Chris Deschenee and ongoing special election between Joe Shirley Jr. and Russell Begaye. The Shelly Jim Administration passed on the Navajo Nation Executive Office at 12:00 pm noon onto newly elected Navajo president-elect Russell Begaye and vice president-elect Johnathon Nez. References External links 1947 births Living people New Mexico Democrats People from McKinley County, New Mexico Presidents of the Navajo Nation Vice Presidents of the Navajo Nation Members of the Navajo Nation Council 20th-century Native Americans 21st-century Native Americans