A good leader can lead his country forward, usually a position held by men, but there have been many outstanding female politicians in history. Since its development, women leaders in Northern Europe have begun to emerge in large numbers, and people pay attention to their appearance, pay attention to their gossip, and pay more attention to their leadership level.
The current Prime Minister of Estonia is kaja Kallas, and she is our protagonist today. Kalas was born on June 18, 1977 in Tallinn, Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic, the capital of present-day Estonia.
Her family was outstanding, and Callas's great-grandfather, Edward Alver, was the first police chief of the Republic of Estonia. The Estonian writer and poet Betty Alver was also a member of their family. His father, Sim Karas, was a former Estonian Prime Minister, Finance Minister, Member of Parliament and Chairman of the Reform Party.
Growing up in such a family, it was difficult not to be influenced by the politician's father, so after graduating from high school, she was admitted to the law department of the University of Tartu, during which Karas also exerted her own energy in the field of art in addition to this professional course, and tried to be an assistant director in the field of drama from the sophomore year.
She also has a strong talent for languages, speaking Russian, English, Finnish and French in addition to her native Estonian. Kalas graduated in 1999 with a Bachelor of Laws degree. Kalas then began his career as a lawyer, working in competition law between Europe and Estonia, both in Helsinki, Finland, and Brussels in Belgium.
In 2007, Kalas jumped out of the field of law and returned to school to enter the Estonian Business School, where he received an EMBA in Economics in 2010.
After graduating, Karas began to embark on the political path, first joining the Estonian Reform Party and being elected to the Estonian Parliament in 2011 with 7157 votes, and then in the twelfth Estonian Parliament in 2011-2014, she served as the chairman of the Economic Affairs Committee.
Karas, who has been in politics for just four years, has soared like a rocket, and she is a member of the Council on Industry, Research and Energy in the European Parliament, as well as an alternate member of the Commission on The Internal Market and Consumer Protection. He is also the Vice-Chairman of the delegation of the Parliamentary Cooperation Committee of the European Union and Ukraine, and a member of the Delegation of the European Parliament and the Delegation of Relations between the United States and a series of titles.
After several years of experience, Karas's status has improved significantly, and his voice in the party has become more and more important. On December 13, 2017, Reform Party Chairman Hannor-Pefkur announced that he would no longer run in the January 2018 campaign and proposed that Karas take his place.
After two days of deliberation, Kalas accepted the offer and agreed to run, and the result is self-evident, And Karas was successfully elected, officially becoming the chairman of the Reform Party on April 14, 2018.
In the National Parliamentary Elections in March of the following year, Callas received more than 20,000 votes in support, the best of the candidates, and in the end, the Reform Party won the election with 28.9% of the vote and won 34 seats in parliament.
The Reform Party grew more and more influential, and in April then-President Kosdi Kaluled invited Callas to form a new government and nominated her to be prime minister. But the Reform Party failed to form a new government, and the prime minister remained former Tallinn mayor Yuri Ratas.
When Yuri-Ratas stepped down as Prime Minister in January 2021, President Kosdi Kaluled invited Karas again and signed a presidential decree nominating Karas as a candidate for Prime Minister. On 25 January, Kalas received 70 votes and the following day Kalas took office, thus becoming the first female prime minister in Estonian history.
The government formed by Callas, known as the Army of Women, and half of the 14 ministers were women, was the first time in Estonian political history. When Russia's special military operation against Ukraine began in February 2022, Estonia jumped out first, pledging political and material support to Ukraine.
Pursuing an active foreign policy, Karras made his first trip abroad to Finland and met with the head of government, Sanna Marlene (the Finnish prime minister who had been in a bar not long ago); He then went to Kiev to see Zelenskiy and support Ukraine's accession to the European Union, which he considered a "basic moral obligation."
In a meeting with German Chancellor Schoelz, he stressed the importance of imposing sanctions on Russia and discussed with Britain's Golden Retriever Johnson the prospects for NATO countries' military power in the region.
Because of her radical style, the New Statesman called Kras the "New Iron Lady of Europe", and Kras was known as the main pro-Ukrainian voice both in Estonia and abroad, and public trust in her increased dramatically.
In fact, Karas supports Ukraine, which is also very understandable, the three Baltic countries to Russia, every time like seeing a father and enemy.
In the distant year of 1949, due to guerrilla warfare and other forms of resistance by Baltic nationalists, as well as the slow process of full collectivization of the Baltic region, this triggered the dissatisfaction of stalin, the supreme leader of the Soviet Union at the time, who ordered the expulsion of the disloyal inhabitants of the Baltic region, known as the "March Expulsion".
Karas's mother, who was only six months old at the time, was one of the deported families along with her mother and maternal grandmother, who were transported in containers to remote mountains in Siberia or northern Soviet Union, where about 100,000 people in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania were involved.
In the process, the death toll was about 15 percent, and Karas's mother did not return to Estonia until after Stalin's death. So you say that the three Baltic countries can see Russia, can their eyes not be red? When there was a conflict between Russia and Ukraine, it was not surprising that Karas stood firmly behind Ukraine.
While establishing her image internationally and covering the sky at home, Karas proposed to the current president, Aral Karris, in June 2022 that many in the current government were not up to the task.
As a result, the President dismissed a number of senior leaders, including Minister of Public Administration Jacques Abu, Minister of Health and Labour Tanel Kik, Minister for Foreign Affairs Eva Maria Limetz, Minister of Economy and Infrastructure Tavi As, Minister of the Interior Christian Jani, Minister of the Environment Elki Savisar and Minister of Culture Trik.
On 8 July, Callas announced that he was going to resign as prime minister, and six days later the president approved it, but it was like going through a process, and then immediately asked Callas to form a new government, the politics of small European countries and the jokes.
In 2002, she married Romette Legel, an employee of the Estonian Maritime Academy, but the marriage lasted only four years and ended in 2006. In 2011, Karas married again, and her second husband was the former Finance Minister (2003-2005) Tavi Viski Maggie, and soon they had a son, but the children did not prevent the relationship from disappearing, and in 2014 Karas divorced again.
In September 2018, Karas stepped into the halls of marriage for the third time, this time against the banker Alvor Halik, and how long the third marriage will last may only be known to Karas himself.
Looking back at Karas's way to the top, Daddy did his best, her ex-husband secured her position, and the current one gave her enough money, maybe Kras could be unimpeded in Estonian politics with a beautiful face.
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