Eesti Vabaerakond
| Eesti Vabaerakond Estonian Free Party |
|
|---|---|
| Party leader | Heiki Lill |
| founding | 20th September 2014 |
| Headquarters | Koidu 23 10136 Tallinn |
| Alignment | liberal-conservative, populist |
| Colours) | blue |
| Number of members | 591 (2018) |
| Website | www.vabaerakond.ee |
The Eesti Vabaerakond (roughly Estonian Free Party ) was a party in the Republic of Estonia . The EVA was a populist party with a liberal - conservative orientation. In August 2020 it merged with Elurikkuse Erakond .
history
The party was officially launched on September 20, 2014. In its heyday it had around 700 members.
She ran for the first time in the parliamentary elections on March 1, 2015 . With a result of 8.7%, she was able to jump the five percent hurdle straight away and enter the Estonian parliament ( Riigikogu ) with eight seats . In the next election in 2019 , the party failed to defend its mandates. It only got 1.2% of the vote.
Positions
The party's criticism was directed primarily against the established party system, which, as an elite project, has distanced itself from the people. The party came up with populist slogans such as “We are giving the state back to the people!” And “Stop fattening up the parties!”.
The party represented basic conservative values, but at the same time emphasized the human claim to freedom. It stood for Estonia's membership in the European Union and in NATO.
Election results
| year | be right | proportion of | Mandates | space |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 49,882 | 8.7% |
8/101 |
5. |
| 2019 | 6,461 | 1.2% |
0/101 |
9. |
| year | be right | proportion of | Mandates | space |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | - | - |
0/7 |
- |
Chair and well-known members
Until April 2017, the chairman of the party was Liit Andres Herkel, who had been a member of the conservative party Isamaa ja Res Publica for many years . He was replaced by the film producer Artur Talvik , who had been the top candidate for the 2015 parliamentary election, but who only joined the party in 2017. However, Herkel returned to the position of chairman a good year later, only to be replaced by Kaul Nurm a few months later . After the parliamentary and European elections in spring, Heiki Lill became the new (and last) party chairman in June 2019.
Prominent members of the party included the Estonian musician, actor and theater director Peeter Volkonski and the writer Ülo Mattheus .
Web links
- Official website (Estonian and Russian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Free Party and Biodiversity Party merger officially agreed , online report at news.err.ee, accessed on March 8, 2019 (English)
- ↑ Riigikogu valimised 2019 , election result on rk2019.valimised.ee, accessed on August 20, 2020 (English)
- ↑ Talvik joins Free Party, announces chairmanship candidacy , online announcement on news.err.ee from March 8, 2017, accessed on March 9, 2017 (English)
- ↑ Herkel elected Free Party chair , online report on news.err.ee from May 13, 2018, accessed on May 13, 2018 (English)
- ↑ Weekend full of politics , online report on news.postimees.ee from October 1, 2018, accessed on October 1, 2018 (English)
- ↑ Heiki Lill elected chairman of the Free Party , online report on news.err.ee from June 10, 2019, accessed on June 10, 2019 (English)