From this moment onwards, Estonia has the youngest prime minister throughout the European Union. 34 -year-old Taavi Roivas replaced over nine years in office Ansip Andrus, who submitted his resignation, as he intends to work in the European Commission. The new Prime Minister was the Prime Minister for Social Affairs in the former government staff, a member of the Estonian Reform Party. However, Estonians have had a younger prime minister, 32-year-old, therefore, today, in the meetings with Armenian journalists in the government and parliament, the issue of the new prime minister was not so much stressed as the fact that five out of thirteen ministers of the new government are women. Deputy Speaker of the Estonian Parliament, Mrs. Laine Randjärv (in the photo) managed to remain in office as the mayor of Tartu, and the Minister of Culture, and revealed that she will try to be elected in the European Parliament, too. We met with her and the representatives of the Armenian community in Estonia after the new government assumed its duties with an oath in front of the parliament. Mrs. Deputy Speaker said that although the new prime minister is 34 years old, however, he has already ten years of work experience in various positions: he was a minister and so on. “It is good that all in the government are not men. I myself am not a feminist in principle, I do not like quotas, etc., and I do not like this theme,” so responded Laine Randjärv to the observation of Aravot whether there are elements of matriarchy in the new government. Later she added, “We were also quite surprised.” A short while after she told us that when she was a minister of culture, she was the only woman in the government. And explained how it happened now. “A new generation, new Prime Minister, a young man who thinks globally. And I think that he is thinking right. This was his choice.”
Anna Israelyan
Tallinn
