{"id":573136,"date":"2026-09-02T14:26:24","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T11:26:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=573136"},"modified":"2026-09-02T14:52:57","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T11:52:57","slug":"ulle-madise-elected-president-of-estonia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/ulle-madise-elected-president-of-estonia","title":{"rendered":"\u00dclle Madise Elected President of Estonia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Estonia\u2019s parliament has elected a new president. The post went to <strong>\u00dclle Madise<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Seventy-one members of the Riigikogu voted for her. She needed 68 votes to be elected. Some members of parliament did not take part in the vote, including representatives of the Centre Party.<\/p>\n<p>\u00dclle Madise is a lawyer by training. She previously worked at the Ministry of Justice, the Riigikogu Constitutional Committee, as a state auditor at the National Audit Office and as a legal adviser to the president. She was backed by lawmakers from four parties.<\/p>\n<p>Madise will take office as president on Oct. 12, <a href=\"https:\/\/news.err.ee\/1610126071\/estonia-elects-new-president\">ERR<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Estonia\u2019s parliament has elected a new president. The post went to \u00dclle Madise. Seventy-one members of the Riigikogu voted for her. She needed 68 votes to be elected. Some members of parliament did not take part in the vote, including representatives of the Centre Party. \u00dclle Madise is a lawyer by training. She previously worked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":573135,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/6a980e2276618.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"\u00dclle Madise Elected President of Estonia"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143284,143090],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","category-politics"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/573135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}