Ülle Madise

She was the Riigikogu's candidate backed by the Reform Party, Social Democrats, Estonia 200 and Isamaa, and was elected President of Estonia on 2 September 2026 in the first round, taking office on 12 October 2026.

Career

Madise holds law degrees from the University of Tartu and a doctorate in public administration from Tallinn University of Technology (2007). She worked at the Ministry of Justice from 1997, heading its public law department from 1998 to 2002, lectured at the University of Tartu from 2001 and was legal adviser to the President of Estonia from 2009 to 2015. She has been Chancellor of Justice since 2015 and is a constitutional law professor at Tartu.

Positions

As Chancellor of Justice she has commented on plans for surveillance cameras, intervened in digital ID issuance, and, according to Wikipedia, called the Estonian car tax law illegal. She stands as an independent and was backed by four parliamentary parties spanning government and opposition.

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