Conservative People's Party of Estonia
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Conservative People's Party of Estonia
Eesti Konservatiivne Rahvaerakond |
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| Chairman | Mart Helme |
| Founded | 24 March 2012 |
| Preceded by |
People's Union of Estonia Estonian Patriotic Movement |
| Headquarters | Toompuiestee 4, Tallinn |
| Newspaper | Konservatiivide Vaba Sõna |
| Youth wing | Blue Awakening |
| Membership (2016) |
 8,010 |
| Ideology |
Estonian nationalism National conservatism Ethnopluralism Euroscepticism Direct democracy Right-wing populism |
| Political position | Right-wing to Far-right |
| Colours | Blue |
| Riigikogu |
7 / 101
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| EU Parliament |
0 / 6
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| Party flag | |
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| Website | |
| www.ekre.ee | |
The Conservative People's Party of Estonia (Estonian: Eesti Konservatiivne Rahvaerakond, EKRE) is a national conservative political party in Estonia. Current chairman of the party is Mart Helme, former Estonian ambassador to Russia. Its identitarian youth wing, Blue Awakening organizes frequent nationalist torchlight marches in Estonia. Ideologically, the party is a descendant of the Estonian ethno-nationalist camp, which dates back to the Singing Revolution. Many political commentators place the EKRE on the right to far right but party representatives reject this and suggest other ways of looking at the left–right axis.
The party was founded in March 2012 when the agrarian centrist party People's Union of Estonia and the nationalist pressure group Estonian Patriotic Movement merged. In the parliamentary election of 2015, it secured 8.1% of the votes and entered the Riigikogu with 7 seats. At the same time it had around 7600 members, being the fourth largest Estonian party by membership size.
The party sees the survival of Estonian ethnicity as its main objective, and many of its policies are directed towards providing support to young Estonian families, lowering emigration of Estonians and preventing immigration from outside of the European Union. It is also eurosceptic and wishes to implement Swiss-style direct democracy.
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