Center Party leader and speaker of the Riigikogu Jüri Ratas may be proposing academic Tarmo Soomere as a presidential candidate, ERR reports.
Ratas and Prime Minister and Reform Party leader and Prime Minister Kaja Kallas announced Monday that they had found a common candidate to present to the other Riigikogu parties.
Reform and Center are in office together.
Tarmo Soomere has been President of the Estonian Academy of Sciences (Eesti Teaduste Akadeemia) since 2014. While his name has been linked in the media with a presidential bid since March, confirming a willingness himself to run, he had not had the backing of any political heavyweight earlier on.
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