On 29 August 2011 Toomas Hendrik Ilves was re-elected for the second term as President of Estonia in the Riigikogu Electoral Commission.

On the eve of the 2021 presidential elections of the Republic of Estonia, it is necessary to recall our previous presidents who had been able to earn a second term of office.

Greatly due of the degradation of the moral beliefs of the politicians of the Estonian Party and the replacement of the moral standards of politicians with personal ambitions, the prospects for the President of the Republic of Estonia Kresti Kaljulaid to remain in for the second term are bad, because the insignificant personal resentment of one of the party leader and vice-chairman of this party regarding the capability of the Presidential institution has led to an era of cherry-picked presidents.

 

For the sake of political stability and maintaining peace, it is necessary for President of Estonia Kersti Kaljulaid to remain for another term of office, which will ensure sufficient political change in the next 5 years, where the current deeply resenting people without ethical brakes have lost most of their influence, and the Republic of Estonia can move forward as a democracy, not as a result of decisions taken from the resentment laying in dep dark recesses of a person’s soul, while the resenters themselves are the very people who caused the situation that is causing them to feel divisive.

 

On 30 August 2021 the first round of election of President of Estonia in the Electoral Committee will take place. This is the second time in the last five years, where the Keskerakond is derailing the elections of the President of the Republic of Estonia as provided for in the Constitution. In 2016, Erki Savisaar, Chairman of the Keskerakond fraction in Riigikogu, did not even foresee the possibility of electing the President of Estonia in the Electoral Committee, which was aimed to get revenge on Siim Kallas and any feasible prospect of him becoming the President of the Republic of Estonia. As a result, the Republic of Estonia was thrown into a constitutional crisis, during which in search for a potential candidate led to Kersti Kaljulaid candidacy, where Keskerakond as a result of the change of party leader, continues to go the beaten path of ignoring sustainability in Estonian politics.

 

Lennart Meri and Toomas Hendrik Ilves are two former presidents who have served within the maximum two terms of office laid down in the Constitution. Both presidents have been key players in Estonia’s capability and international success.

 

 

Valdo Praust:

Today, 10 years ago, on 29 August 2011, Toomas Hendrik Ilves, former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador to the United States and a well-known radio voice from the 1980s the editor-in-chief of Estonian section of the Radio Free Europe, that brought the news of the free world to our fellow citizens behind the Iron Curtain, was re-elected as President of Estonia in the Riigikogu for the second term of office. 73 delegates voted in favour of Ilves, the opponent Indrek Tarand got 25 votes.

Toomas Hendrik Ilves giving oath for the second term of office.