Eesti Konservatiivne Rahvaerakond

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Eesti Konservatiivne Rahvaerakond
Estonian People's Conservative Party
EKRE logo
Party chairman Mart Helme
Party leader Martin helmets
Honorary Chairman Arnold Rüütel
founding March 2012
Headquarters Toompuiestee 27
10142 Tallinn
Alignment National
conservatism EU skepticism
Nationalism
Right-wing populism
Colours) blue
Parliament seats
19/101
( Riigikogu , 2019 )
Number of members 8,599 (November 2, 2018)
MEPs
1/7
( 2019 )
European party IDP
EP Group Identity and democracy
Website www.ekre.ee

The Eesti Konservatiivne Rahvaerakond ( Estonian Conservative People's Party - EKRE ) is a party in the Republic of Estonia .

history

founding

The EKRE emerged as the successor party to the Estonian People's Union ( Eestimaa Rahvaliit ). With its political decline, the People's Union, which had not been represented in parliament ( Riigikogu ) since 2011 , was absorbed into the Estonian Conservative People's Party in March 2012. The party was joined by the right-wing conservative Eesti Rahvuslik Liikumine (Estonian National Movement), founded in 2006 .

EKRE has connections to groups that would be called neo-Nazis or neo-fascists in Germany, e.g. B. Odin's soldiers who appear as security forces at party events.

elections

After the EKRE won only 4.0% of the votes in the 2014 European elections , it won 8.1% of the vote in the parliamentary elections the following year. With 7 of 101 MPs, it is the smallest of the six groups in the Riigikogu . In the parliamentary election that followed in March 2019, the party was able to increase its election result to 17.8% and is now represented with 19 of the 101 seats. The EKRE was then involved in the government for the first time ( Cabinet Ratas II ) and the party was also able to successfully complete the 2019 European elections and gain a seat in Brussels. In the EU Parliament she joined the identity and democracy group.

Positions

The party represents some z. Sometimes quite controversial positions. It refuses to ratify a new border agreement with Russia, as this document will grant Russia the right to the territory around the Narva River and part of the Pechory settlement area , which the party believes is contrary to the constitution of the republic.

Election results

Results in the parliamentary elections
year be right proportion of Mandates space
2015 46,772 8.1%
7/101
 6th
2019 99,672 17.8%
19/101
 3.
Results in the European elections
year be right proportion of Mandates space
2014 13,247 4.0%
0/6
 6th
2019 42,265 12.7%
1/7
 4th

Politician

The long-time chairman of the EKRE was the Estonian historian and former ambassador to Moscow Mart Helme (* 1949), who was expelled from the Estonian People's Union in 2005 after making nationalistic statements. The current chairman is his son Martin Helme (* 1976), one of Estonia's harshest EU critics and advocate of a racially motivated Estonia-first policy.

Former Estonian President Arnold Rüütel is the party's honorary chairman .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Online report on news.err.ee from November 2, 2018, accessed on November 2, 2018 (English)
  2. ↑ Online report on balticworlds.com from March 9, 2015, accessed on October 9, 2018 (English)
  3. ↑ https://www.welt.de/politik/ausland/article152848206/Asylthema-beschert-Soldaten-Odins-immer-mehr-Zulauf.html
  4. ↑ http://florianhartleb.com/interview-zum-abschnitt-der-rechtspopulisten-bei-den-wahlen-in-estland/?lang=de
  5. ↑ Liberals win in Estonia, right-wing populists third strongest party. Welt, March 4, 2019, accessed March 4, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Online report on de.sputniknews.com from May 10, 2019, accessed on July 20, 2019
  7. ↑ https://www.baltikum-blatt.eu/index.php/fluechtlingskrise/1908-estnic-rechtsnationalisten-demonstrieren-gegen-fluechtlinge
  8. ↑ https://news.err.ee/107416/conservative-politician-if-you-re-black-go-back
  9. ↑ https://news.err.ee/830187/former-president-arnold-ruutel-turns-90