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Viewing cable 06TALLINN582, WHAT MAKES TOOMAS HENDRIK RUN?

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Reference ID Created Released Classification Origin
06TALLINN582 2006-06-19 11:35 2011-08-25 00:00 UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY Embassy Tallinn
VZCZCXYZ0004
RR RUEHWEB

DE RUEHTL #0582/01 1701135
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
R 191135Z JUN 06
FM AMEMBASSY TALLINN
TO SECSTATE WASHDC 8757
UNCLAS TALLINN 000582 
 
SIPDIS 
 
SIPDIS 
 
NOFORN 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: PGOV EN
SUBJECT: WHAT MAKES TOOMAS HENDRIK RUN? 
 
 
1. (SBU) Summary. Former Foreign Minister Toomas Hendrik 
Ilves is one of the front runners as we approach 
August's first round of elections for president, a job 
Ilves tells us he does not want.  Openly disdainful of 
incumbent Arnold Ruutel, Ilves explained that he had to 
run because he could not stomach the prospect of five 
more years of Ruutel and his "kolkhoz manager 
mentality."  Ilves expects the election to go to the 
Electoral College, where he believes he stands a 50/50 
chance of winning.  End Summary. 
 
I DON'T WANT TO, BUT I HAVE TO 
------------------------------ 
 
2. (SBU) In typically brassy fashion, former Foreign 
Minister and current presidential candidate Toomas 
Hendrik Ilves marched into his meeting with us and began 
by saying: "So, I guess you want to know why I want this 
job.  Well, I don't want it."  Ilves explained that 
twice before he has sacrificed a comfortable life to 
serve his country -- once when he gave up his position as 
head of RFE's Estonian Section to become Ambassador to 
Washington, and again when he agreed to become Foreign 
Minister.  Ilves claimed to have no interest in 
committing himself to a life of near poverty for his 
country a third time, especially for a job that has as 
little power as that of Estonia?s president. 
 
3. (SBU)  So, why is Ilves running?  Simple.  He 
disdains incumbent President Arnold Ruutel, saying that 
during Ruutel's tenure Estonia has effectively lacked a 
President.  And, Ilves believes, he is the only person 
who has a chance of ousting Ruutel.  He portrays a 
Ruutel-Ilves showdown as a battle between entrenched old 
regime-era figures with their "kolkhoz manager 
mentality" and eastward-orientation and Estonia's 
younger, westward-oriented generation. 
 
HOW IT WILL PLAY OUT 
-------------------- 
 
4.  (SBU) Ilves thinks he is the only candidate who 
stands a chance of uniting enough of Estonia's political 
establishment to beat Ruutel.  This is not because the 
political elite particularly like him.  It is, instead, 
because Ilves is the only potential candidate popular 
enough with the public to have a real chance of beating 
Ruutel. 
 
5.  (SBU)  As Ilves sees it, the election will not be 
decided in the parliament, even though he claims to have 
the two-thirds support among deputies required for 
election.  Since they know this, Ilves believes the 
leaders of the People's Union (Ruutel's old party) and 
the Center Party will not allow their deputies to 
participate in the secret ballot election.  This will 
leave Ilves three votes short of the required two-thirds 
and throw the election into the Electoral College, where 
the parliamentary deputies will be joined by a large 
number of local officials. 
 
6.  (SBU)  Ilves shrugs off press reports that People?s 
Union and Center are actively recruiting support among 
these local officials with promises of budgetary 
largesse.  (Both parties are members of the governing 
coalition, whereas Ilves? Social Democratic Party is in 
opposition.)  In the end, Ilves believes local officials 
with an eye to their own political futures will vote the 
way they think will be most popular back at home.  He 
believes he holds the trump there given what he claims 
is his greater popularity even in rural areas where 
Ruutel is supposed to be strongest.  (NOTE:  Recent 
polls asking voter preferences in a Ruutel-Ilves contest 
show a jump in support for Ruutel since he announced he 
would run for re-election.  This jump has eaten away 
most, but not all, of Ilves' lead in earlier polls.) 
Taking all this into account, Ilves believes he stands a 
50/50 chance of winning in the Electoral College. 
 
AND WHAT IF HE DOES? 
-------------------- 
 
7.  (SBU)  So what will Ilves do if he does wind up with 
this job he says he doesn't want?  He does not intend to 
flout the constitutional limits on the president's role 
as he believes his patron, Lennart Meri, did.  At home, 
he will use his bully pulpit to try to constrain the 
politicians he so clearly disdains such as Center's 
Edgar Savisaar and People's Union's Villu Reiljan.  In 
foreign policy, he thinks he can fill an important void, 
serving as the voice for new EU entrants who want to 
push the EU in two important directions: towards more 
liberal economics -- he points out that his Estonian 
Social Democratic Party votes more liberally on economic 
issues than the German CDU -- and a more pro-U.S. foreign 
policy. 
 
WOS