Mart Järvik

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Mart Järvik (born February 21, 1956 in Käru , today rural municipality Türi , Järva district ) is an Estonian politician . From April 29 to November 25, 2019, he was Minister for Rural Development of the Republic of Estonia in the Ratas II cabinet .

Life

Mart Järvik graduated from Vändra Middle School in 1971 . Until 1975 he attended the technical high school of the sovkhoz in Tihemetsa . At first he was employed from 1975 to 1979 as head of a car repair workshop in the village of Lokuta . From 1979 to 1989 Järvik then worked as a bus driver in Pärnu . From 1989 to 1991 he was employed by the Finnish company Antti-Teollisuus OY .

When Estonian independence was regained in 1991, Järvik became a farmer on his own farm in his Central Estonian homeland. At the same time he continued to work for his Finnish company from 1991 to 2001 as a building supervisor and sales manager for the Baltic States and Eastern Europe.

In 2009 Mart Järvik graduated from the Tartu University branch in Türi with a degree in environmental sciences . In 2011 he graduated from the Faculty of Science and Technology at Tartu University.

politics

From 2002 to 2013 Mart Järvik was a member of the conservative party Res Publica and its successor party Isamaa ja Res Publica Liit . In April 2015 he joined the right-wing populist Estonian Conservative People's Party (EKRE).

From 2002 to 2018 Mart Järvik was the mayor of the rural municipality of Järvakandi in Rapla County . At the same time he held the post of Deputy Chairman of the Board of the Estonian Association of Cities (Eesti Linnade Liit) from 2010 to 2014 .

With the entry of his party EKRE into the coalition government of Prime Minister Jüri Ratas , Järvik was appointed Minister for Rural Development on April 29th. Following allegations of corruption against him and allegations of misinforming the public, Järvik was forced to leave the cabinet on November 25, 2019. At the same time, the government dismissed the state secretary in Järvik's ministry, Illar Lemetti , who had been in office since 2016 , and who had handed over his minister's case to the judiciary.

Private

Mart Järvik is married. He has one grown son and one grown daughter.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Reinhard Wolff: Corruption in Estonia: Shit named, job lost. In: taz.de. December 2, 2019, accessed December 4, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Järvik, Mart
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Estonian politician, minister
DATE OF BIRTH February 21, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Käru