{"id":14451,"date":"2021-05-27T09:33:30","date_gmt":"2021-05-27T09:33:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=14451"},"modified":"2021-05-27T09:33:41","modified_gmt":"2021-05-27T09:33:41","slug":"proposals-to-combine-the-positions-of-president-and-prime-minister-in-estonia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=14451","title":{"rendered":"Proposals to Combine the Positions of President and Prime Minister in Estonia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Estonia could combine the functions of the president and prime <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=14320\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"14320\">minister <\/a>in one position. This opinion was expressed on Thursday by the honorary chairman of the ruling right-liberal Reform Party Seim Kallas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Kyiv. Ukraine. Ukraine Gate &#8211; May 27, 2021 \u2013 International News<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;It&#8217;s a small country, one black car less,&#8221; he wrote in an article in the newspaper Eesti P\u00e4evaleht. &#8211; And then, of course, the prime minister could be elected directly. Simple and clear. \u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kallas noted that the procedure for electing the President of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=14127\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"14127\">Estonia <\/a>is currently very complicated. To select a candidate, you need the support of 68 deputies of the 101-seat Riigikogu (parliament) or 105 votes in the Board of Electors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The next presidential election in Estonia is scheduled for August 10 to September 29. First, the head of state will try to elect the country&#8217;s parliament. If he fails, a Board of Electors will be convened, consisting of 208 people (107 local government representatives and 101 members of the Riigikogu).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Currently, the President of Estonia is Kersti Kaljulaid, who was elected to this position in 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read also: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=8738\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"8738\">Electing a New Composition of the Public Council at the Ministry of Education and Science<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Source: Ukrgate<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Estonia could combine the functions of the president and prime minister in one position. This opinion was expressed on Thursday by the honorary chairman of the ruling right-liberal Reform Party Seim Kallas. Kyiv. Ukraine. Ukraine Gate &#8211; May 27, 2021 \u2013 International News &#8220;It&#8217;s a small country, one black car less,&#8221; he wrote in an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":14452,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[6562,5481,6678,744,748,6677,2399,1854],"class_list":["post-14451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-international-news","tag-combine","tag-estonia","tag-positions","tag-president","tag-prime-minister","tag-proposes","tag-ukraine-gate","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14451"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14453,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14451\/revisions\/14453"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}