Independent Royalist Party of Estonia () was a frivolous political party in

Estonia Estonia, officially the Republic of Estonia, is a country in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the Baltic Sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, and to the east by Ru ...

in the 1990s. It is now defunct. The party, widely considered a humorous expression of protest, was successful in the 1992 Estonian parliamentary elections, with 32,638 votes, gaining eight seats in the parliament ('' Riigikogu''). Its most prominent members were known humorists Priit Aimla, Kirill Teiter and

Ralf Parve Ralf Parve (until 1978 Ralf Perman; 25 June 1919 in Rakvere – 29 April 2011 in Tallinn) was an Estonian writer. He used several pseudonyms: Nähvits, Mart Raju, and Rahula Pärn, as well as the SMERSh and KGB agent name Peiker. In the 1940s, he ...

, and the party was led by Kalle Kulbok. The party's official programme called for establishing Estonia as a

monarchy A monarchy is a form of government in which a person, the monarch, reigns as head of state for the rest of their life, or until abdication. The extent of the authority of the monarch may vary from restricted and largely symbolic (constitutio ...

, as modeled by Sweden and Norway. In practice, the party's main achievement was consistent ridicule of laws its members found ridiculous, for example, getting rid of the proposed hour of prayer in the parliament by repeatedly performing a stylized "Neopagan" rite, complete with tambourine. The party also performed an "eating strike", as opposed to the simultaneous hunger strikes by some pro-Russian politicians.

List of members who served in Riigikogu

* Priit Aimla * Tõnu Kõrda * Lembit Küüts * Mihkel Kraav * Vambola Põder * Rein Kikerpill * Kalle Kulbok *

* Vilja Savisaar * Kirill Teiter

References

External links

Estonian Royalist Party entry at Eesti Erakondade Ajalugu

at Eesti Erakondade Ajalugu

by Peeter Raidla
Kuningatiitliga Kirill Teiter end naljameheks ei pea
by Piret Reiljan {{Political parties in Estonia Defunct political parties in Estonia Joke political parties 1992 in Estonia Monarchist parties