Kersti Kaljulaid elected first female president of Estonia

  03 October 2016    Read: 1946
Kersti Kaljulaid elected first female president of Estonia
Kersti Kaljulaid was elected Estonia`s first female president on Monday in voting that saw the Baltic country`s representative in the European Court of Auditors as the only candidate.
Out of 101 lawmakers, 81 cast their ballot in favor of Kaljulaid, with 17 blank ballots and three absences.

The latest elections were held after two failed attempts in which neither the parliament, nor the electoral college later, succeeded in electing the head of state in Estonia`s indirect presidential election system. Toomas Hendrik Ilves, the incumbent president, is due to step down in November. He is serving his second consecutive term and the country`s constitution forbids running for a third time.

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