query: office_contested estonian parliamentary election
supports: Tiit Vähi (born 10 January 1947) is an Estonian politician who was Prime Minister of Estonia from 1995 to 1997. He was also acting Prime Minister for several months during 1992 under the transitional government.
  Life and career.
  Born in Valga, Estonia, Vähi graduated from the Tallinn Technical University with a degree in Engineering. From the time of his graduation until 1992, he served in several top managerial post with the Valga Trucking Company. Estonian Coalition Party ("Eesti Koonderakond") was an Estonian centrist/centre-right liberal political party. Founded in 1991 by Tiit Vähi, it disbanded in 2001. The party was an observing member of Liberal International from 1998 on. It had a contacts with parties like Latvian Way and participated in the ruling coalition of 1995-1999. A party mostly uniting former (urban) nomenklatura and other Soviet era officials, it was closely allied with the Party of Rural People, which, however, represented more populist, centre-left ideology. Parliamentary elections were held in Estonia on 7 March 1999 . The elections proved disastrous for the Estonian Coalition Party , which won only seven seats together with two of its smaller allies . The Estonian Country People 's Union , which participated the election on its own list , obtained seven seats as well . The programme of Mart Laar 's government was signed by Pro Patria Union , Reform Party , Moderates and People 's Party . The latter two merged soon after , so Mart Laar 's second government is widely known as Kolmikliit , or Tripartite coalition . Notwithstanding the different political orientation of the ruling parties , the coalition stayed united until Mart Laar resigned in December 2001 , after Reform Party had broken up the same coalition in Tallinn municipality , making opposition leader Edgar Savisaar new Mayor of Tallinn . After resignation of Laar , Reform Party and Estonian Centre Party formed a coalition that lasted until next parliamentary election , 2003 .
candidates: member prime minister of estonia
answer: prime minister of estonia