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Juhan Parts

Juhan Parts is an Estonian politician, Prime Minister, and leader of the Res Publica party.

He was born on 27 August 1966 in Tallinn, Estonia, and graduated from Tallinn Secondary School No. 1 (the present Gustav Adolf Gymnasum) and from the University of Tartu with a degree in Law.

Finding a high-level entry position right away with the Ministry of Justice, where he belonged to the "Young Turks" around the Deputy Minister Mihkel Oviir, he was in spring 1998 appointed to become Auditor General. He held this office until 2002. From this office, which is virtually unimpeachable and a unique feature in the Estonian Constitution, he frequently criticized the government and became for some a popular figure.

In the Riigikogu (Parliament) elections in 2003, which Juhan Parts entered as the chairman of the new Res Publica party, an ideology-free, technocratic party of mostly under-30 administrators, that party surprisingly gained a majority among the right/center parties, and so Parts was charged to form a government and become Prime Minister. The new government took office on 10 April 2003.

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