The chairwoman of the Estonian Greens Züleyxa Izmailova announced that she would not run for the position at the party assembly in January. Marko Kaasik and Johanna Maria Tõugu are likely to be the main candidates.
The Estonian Greens finished second to last among parties in the recent local government election and will begin choosing new leadership on November 20.
The co-chairman of the Estonian Greens Kaspar Kurve told ERR that party leadership should take responsibility for the party's failure at the local government elections last week and that he plans to do so.
Important fields where innovation yields a competitive edge and helps ensure subsistence are energy, food production and information technology. Estonia needs to focus its activities, Züleyxa Izmailova writes.
The Riigikogu discussed the green turn as a matter of national importance a day after it passed the state budget. It is a telling example of how things have been handled in this country for the past 10-15 years – first, we divide the money among ourselves and then we tell the people a short green fairy tale. A petition (link in Estonian - ed.) against a new shale oil mill was binned by the Riigikogu Economic Affairs Committee a day before the budget was passed.