Popular Front of Estonia
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The Popular Front of Estonia (Estonian: Eestimaa Rahvarinne; RR), introduced to the public by the Estonian politician Edgar Savisaar under the short-lived name Popular Front for the Support of Perestroika, was a political organisation in Estonia in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Edgar Savisaar introduced the idea of popular front during a TV show on 13 April 1988. The idea was developed through the year and finally The Estonian Popular Front was established on 1 October 1988 with a massively crowded congress which turned to a culmination of the first phase of the Singing Revolution.
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Popular Front of Estonia Eestimaa Rahvarinne | |
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Abbreviation | RR |
Leader | Edgar Savisaar |
Founded | 1 October 1988 (1988-10-01) |
Dissolved | 13 November 1993 (1993-11-13) |
Succeeded by | Estonian Centre Party |
Headquarters | Uus tänav 28, Tallinn |
Ideology | Pro-Perestroika Social liberalism Environmentalism |
Political position | Centre to centre-left |
Colours | Blue |
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It was to a significant degree the precursor to the current Estonian Centre Party, although with a much broader base of popularity at the beginning.