Social Democratic Party of Estonia

The SDE consists of districts ( piirkond ), districts consist of districts ( osakond ).

The highest body is the general assembly ( üldkogu ), between the congress - the board ( juhatus ), the highest organs of the districts - the district general assemblies ( piirkonna üldkoosolek ), between the district conferences - the district councils ( piirkonna juhatus ), the highest organs of the districts - the district general assemblies ( osakonna üldkoosolek ), between district conferences - district boards ( osakonna juhatus ).

In 1990, several Social Democratic organizations of Estonia (the Estonian Socialist Party Foreign Association (the successor of the Socialist Workers Party of Estonia in exile), the Democratic Labor Party of Estonia, the Estonian Social Democratic Party of Independence and the Russian Social Democratic Party of Estonia) merged to form the united Estonian Social - a democratic party, the first leader of which was Marya Lauristin . In the same year, contact with the Socialist International was restored. To participate in the elections of 1992 and 1995, the party formed a moderate alliance with the Estonian Party of the Rural Center (formed in 1990). In 1996, after the defeat in the elections, these two parties finally merged under the name of themselves "Moderate" and in September 1999 became a full member of the Socialist International.

In 1999, the Moderate and center-right People’s Party, created in May 1998 after the merger of the Peasant Party and the People’s Party of Republicans and Conservatives (breaking away from the Fatherland Union in 1994), formed the Moderate People’s Party. The decision to merge was made on May 29, 1999, in November of that year it was officially approved by the party congress.

In 2003, the Moderate People's Party joined the Party of European Socialists. After the disappointing election results in 2003, on February 7, 2004, the party renamed itself the Social Democratic Party (SDE).

She won the 2004 European Parliamentary elections, receiving 36.8% of the national vote and won 3 seats in the European Parliament. After the last local elections on October 16, 2005, the party is in opposition in most major cities.

In the 2011 parliamentary elections, the party received 17.1% of the vote and 19 seats in the Riigikogu against the previous 10.

• Maryu Lauristin 1990-1995
• Eiki Nestor 1995-1996
• Andres Tarand 1996-2001
• Thomas Hendrik Ilves 2001-2002
• Ivari Padar 2002-2009
• Yuri Pihl 2009—2010
• Sven Mixer 2010—2015
• Evgeny Osinovsky 2015—2019
• Indrek Saar 2019 - n. at.

Youth wing of the party - Young Social Democrats ( Noored Sotsiaaldemokraadid ).

Women's Party Organization

The Social Democratic Party of Estonia has partnerships with the Kadri organization, a voluntary democratic association of socially active women. The Kadri association is actually integrated into the SDPE and is essentially a women's organization of the party.

The Kadri association was founded on October 12, 1996 . The predecessor of Kadri was the Founded in 1993, the SDPE Women's Association, which was created on the basis of Estonia’s first women's political organization, the Tallinn Women's Social Democratic Club Kibuvits ( Estonian Kibuvits - 'dog rose'), founded in 1992.

Since March 10, 2004, Kadri has been operating as a non-profit association .

The association aims to participate in processes that make Estonia more democratic and more human-oriented, promoting the promotion of the ideas of equal rights for men and women, balanced development of society and solidarity.

The main governing body of the Kadri association is the general meeting elected by the president, vice president, board and audit committee for a two-year term.

• Information about the Kadri Women's Association on the official website of the SDPE

• Official website (est.) . Archived March 23, 2012.
• Official site (Russian) . Archived March 23, 2012.
• Official site of Young Social Democrats (est.) (Unavailable link) . Date of treatment February 28, 2009. Archived November 29, 2006.