The rector of Estonia’s Tallinn University of Technology, Tiit Land, has effectively conceded the presidential race to his rival, Chancellor of Justice Ülle Madise, ERR reports. After the national-conservative opposition party, Fatherland, decided to support Madise’s candidacy, Land noted that she was likely to be the only candidate with enough support to be officially nominated…
Estonia’s national-conservative opposition party, Fatherland, will support Chancellor of Justice Ülle Madise’s candidacy for president, ERR reported. Fatherland chairman Urmas Reinsalu said that the decisive factors in the party’s decision to back Madise were her “Estonia-centred vision” and “national positions,” ERR reported. Madise’s candidacy was first proposed by the opposition Social Democratic Party, and she…
Estonia’s Chancellor of Justice, Ülle Madise, has officially confirmed that she is running for president, ERR reports. She said that the president’s duty was to safeguard Estonia’s “people, language, culture, nature, freedom, and peace,” stressing the importance of clean nature, of culture and atmosphere, of freedom and responsibility, and of a “caring and developing state.”…
Estonia’s non-parliamentary opposition party, Right-Wingers, has re-elected Lavly Perling as its chairwoman, ERR reported. She was the only candidate to the post. In her acceptance speech, Perling said that “painful decisions” were needed for Estonia not to lose the right to make decisions over its state finances. She insisted that state spending be frozen and…
The leader of the Estonian Reform Party, Prime Minister Kristen Michal, expects Tiit Land, rector of Tallinn University of Technology, to be nominated officially as a candidate for president, ERR reports. He said that Land’s nomination should make the election process in the Estonian parliament, the Riigikogu, “interesting.” However, Michal said that he supported the…
Representatives of parties in the Estonian parliament, the Riigikogu, are meeting with the two leading presidential candidates, Chancellor of Justice Ülle Madise and Tallinn University of Technology rector Tiit Land, ERR reports. Land met with Fatherland and Estonian Centre Party MPs on 12 August 2026, and Madise will meet with MPs from Fatherland, the Centre…
Estonia’s Chancellor of Justice, Ülle Madise, has confirmed that she is ready to run for president if there is sufficient support in the Estonian parliament, the Riigikogu, for her candidacy, parliamentary speaker Lauri Hussar announced, ERR reports. Speaking after a meeting of the parliament’s council of elders, Hussar said that parties would now begin collecting…
Estonia’s two-party ruling coalition has lost its majority in the parliament, the Riigikogu, after two MPs resigned from their parties, ERR reports. Meelis Kiili of the Estonian Reform Party and Kalev Stoicescu of Estonia 200 (E200) announced that they were leaving their respective parties. As a result, the coalition now has 50 votes in the…
Estonia’s Chancellor of Justice, Ülle Madise, said that she would “seriously consider” running for president if there was sufficient support for her candidacy in parliament, ERR reports. Madise noted that as head of an independent constitutional institution, she cannot put herself forward as a candidate. The chancellor of justice “does not and cannot associate herself…
