Mihkel Mutt: The jack-o'-lantern of direct elections
Debating the presidential institution in general and direct presidential elections more narrowly is a national pastime in Estonia and similarly reveals general collective quirks and narrow hidden agendas, Mihkel Mutt writes. Konstantin Päts, the first president of the Republic of Estonia, was basically right when he said that the people are sick. He picked up on the phenomenon (like many others before and after him, not least Anton Hansen Tammsaare), while his diagnosis wasn't quite accurate – as concerns the case history so to speak. It is not so much a disease as retardation. Estonians f...
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