Estonian Prime Minister calls for next president to be elected by parliament

  • 2016-04-20
  • BNS/TBT-STAFF/TALLINNINN
The chairman of Estonia's Reform Party and Estonian Prime Minister, Taavi Roivas, said that his party is calling for the next Estonian President to be elected by other Members of Parliament.  "The Reform Party would prefer getting at least 68 MPs to support one joint candidate,” said Roivas.  “We recognize that we have strong candidates, but we won't elect the president alone. “Before we get to concrete names, we want to find out if parliamentary parties would in principle be ready to elect the...
 
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