Juhan Parts

Juhan Parts ( born August 27, 1966 in Tallinn) is an Estonian politician. He was from March 2003 to March 2005 Ministerpräsidenet and since 2002 chairman of the right-wing liberal Estonian party Res Publica.

Biography

After graduating from the Gustav Adolf Gymnasium in Tallinn ( Tallinn time 1 high school ), he studied law at the University of Tartu (formerly Dorpat ).

Following this, he was immediately given a position in the Estonian Ministry of Justice. He belonged to a young group of politicians who sought to impose rapid and comprehensive reforms for the purpose of greater transparency, rapid progress and a liberal economic policy. The center of attention was also and from the beginning the integration into the EU and NATO.

Auditor General

From 1998 to 2002, Parts General Auditor, an office similar to the President of the Federal Court. In this almost non-cancelable and very privileged position, a special feature of the Estonian Constitution, he held strong and frequent criticism of the unsupported by him government coalitions.

Co-founder of Res Publica

Parts one of the founders of the party Res Publica, resulting from the conservative-liberal youth organization of the same name of the nationalist party alliance Isamaa ( "Fatherland"; later Isamaaliit ) had been formed. It has a liberal economic and otherwise very technology friendly character. However, in general they can be described as technocratic and / or liberal in libertarian sense; often to be found in the German press as a conservative classification is incorrect. It belongs to the European People's Party.

Prime minister

After this very youthful party (barely members over 30 years) in the 2003 parliamentary elections as a complete surprise just the largest party was - probably because of their Unspoiled awareness and novelty - was part Prime Minister of a three-party coalition of Res Publica, Rahvaliit ( People's Union ) and Eesti Reformierakond ( reform Party ). His leadership style was characterized by orientation to the Estonian membership in the European Union and Estonia's economic success especially in the field of innovation. State Organizationally, he pursued more goals to those of Margaret Thatcher were similar. Parts was prime minister at the time of joining the EU on 1 May 2004.

Since about this time, in mid-2004, was part but due to its lack of leadership over the Res Publica leaders who often ministerial posts had ( Ken -Marti Vaher, Taavi Veskimägi Urmas Reinsalu ) and perceived as flawed and one-sided benefits the government strongly subject to public criticism; his poll numbers and the party dropped to around 5 %. There were quarrels with the main coalition partner, the market- radical libertarian Reform Party ( Reformierakond ), which lay in the polls several times before the Res Publica, but possessed less influence in parliament and government.

Resignation as Prime Minister

In spring 2005 Parts dismissed the Foreign Minister Kristiina Ojuland, in whose ministry files had been lost without their party Reformierakond be informed in advance. When it was announced in March that the Justice Minister Ken -Marti Vaher which (including over 100 traffic ticket for speeding ) was very controversial because of various misdemeanors, had developed a system of quotas of minimum numbers of corruption to leading officials per district ( without regard to really this corruption), this was compared with Stalinist purge methods, and it drew a vote of no confidence go from Vaher. Parts combined his political fate with the Vahers and was considered the no-confidence vote on March 21, still believed occurred Parts by the Office of the Prime Minister back to 24 March 2005. Successor was the beginning of April, the Chairman of the Reformierakond and former Economy Minister Andrus Ansip.

Economic Affairs and Communications Minister

With the formation of the second cabinet of Andrus Ansip on 4 April 2007 parts was surprisingly Economic Affairs and Communications Minister. He held that office in the third cabinet of Prime Minister Ansip, which was sworn in April 2011. With the end of the coalition government in March 2014 from different parts of the Cabinet.