Estonia’s populist opposition Conservative People’s Party of Estonia (EKRE) has reelected MP Martin Helme as the party’s chairman, ERR reports. He was the sole candidate. The party congress adopted a statement saying that Estonia’s current political system and institutions had retreated from protecting the constitutional ideal of a nation-state. Estonia must reassert its national sovereignty, stop caring for all the suffering people in the world, and take care of its own people, the statement said. Earlier, Helme conceded that EKRE did not have the ambition to be the biggest party after the next parliamentary elections, but suggested that coming in second or third would enable the party to enter government, ERR reported. Responding to a question on the Helme family’s prominent role within EKRE, the party leader noted that families were common in Estonian politics, insisting that the Helme name was “a strong brand.”
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