The Riigikogu on Tuesday rejected a bill by Conservative People s Party (EKRE) MP Kalle Grünthal for a referendum on whether Estonia should have direct presidential elections.
The Constitutional Committee in charge of processing the bill proposed rejecting it during its first reading which the Riigikogu supported, with 62 MPs voting for and 19 against scrapping the bill.
The bill would have seen the April 18 referendum ask people in the form of a matter of national significance whether the people should elect the president in Estonia.
Constitutional Committee deputy chair Lauri Läänemets (SDE) said that the committee found such a draft resolution to be unconstitutional. Läänemets position was supported by seven members of the committee and opposed by two.