Constitution Party (Estonia)

The Konstitutsioonierakond - EUPP ( German Constitutional Party, Russian Конституционная партия ) was until 2008 a Russian minority party in Estonia.

The party was founded in 1994. By February 2006, she was named Eestimaa Ühendatud Rahvapartei ( " Estonian United People's Party "). With the new name, the party referred to the European Constitution, whose values ​​they support and their rules they want to see brought to Estonia on the application.

The Konstitutsioonierakond described himself as a pragmatic party without solid left-right position. She saw herself primarily as a political representative of the Russian-speaking minority in Estonia.

The party advocated a close partnership with Russia as well as a strengthening of political and social rights of the Russian-speaking population of Estonia. She called for the unconditional naturalization of all persons legally residing in Estonia. Sharp, the 2007 party turned against the relocation of the Soviet soldier monument from downtown Tallinn, which was to commemorate the conquest of Tallinn by the Red Army in 1944. The party also entered against neo-Nazism, among other things, with a vigil in front of the German Embassy in Tallinn.

From 1999 to 2003, the party held an election result of 6.13 % six seats in the Estonian Parliament. Then they failed at the five-percent hurdle. In 2003 she received only 2.2 % of the votes cast in the Estonian parliamentary election in 2007 voted in only 1.0 % of the voters for the party.

In June 2008, the party merged with the Estonian Left Party " Estonian United Left Party " ( Eestimaa Ühendatud Vasakpartei ). However, they did not start in the 2011 general election.

Thus, since 2003, no Russian minority party is more represented in the Estonian Parliament.