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EKRE Riigikogu members have not yet decided whether they will leave their ballots blank or withdraw them from the first round of voting of the presidential election on Monday, the party's Deputy Chairman Mart Helme said.
Estonian residents would prefer Kersti Kaljulaid to continue as the next president, a survey commissioned by newspaper Eesti Päevaleht and carried out by pollster Norstat shows.
Director of the Estonian National Museum Alar Karis met with the Reform Party's Riigikogu faction and board on Thursday to discuss becoming a presidential candidate.
Representatives of five parties on Saturday discussed ways of finding a good president for Estonia at the Opinion Festival in Paide. While no one candidate was agreed on, party representatives said that the presidential election system needs changing.
The parliamentary parties' chairmen debate at the Opinion Festival in Paide touched on the presidential election, coronavirus measures, taxes, kindergarten fees, public transport and nationwide broadband.
Estonia should learn from the Finns how to protect is interests and avoid demonizing its neighboring country, head of the Estonian Academy of Sciences and presidential candidate Tarmo Soomere said in an interview to the Tallinn city government Russian-language newspaper Stolitsa. Chairman of the Center Party, Jüri Ratas, doesn't rule out the academic being the next head of state, despite insufficient support from the five political parties.
The chairman of the Isamaa Party, Helir-Valdor Seeder, says he does not believe that an idea put forward by the chairman of the Social Democratic Party, Indrek Saar, to find a presidential candidate with a referendum would be very effective.
A leading Reformist daily says the Reformist faction would harm its own image if it throws its support behind presidential candidate Nasser Hemmati since he is seen as a key economic decision-maker in the Rouhani administration.
The Reform Party is playing a delicate game in the run-up to this autumn's presidential elections, in an effort to avoid a repeat performance of fall 2016, when the party found itself excluded from office shortly after Kersti Kaljulaid becoming head of state, panelists on Vikerraadio politics show 'Rahva teenrid' found Saturday afternoon.