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STAT	Estonia	Moldova	HISTORY
Head of state > Term limit for head of state	5 Ranked 93th. 25% more than Moldova	4 Ranked 138th.
President	Toomas Hendrik Ilves	Nicolae Timofti
President > Profile	<p>Mr Ilves was first sworn in as president in October 2006.</p> <p>As head of state, the president is supreme commander of the armed forces and represents Estonia abroad. However, the role is mainly ceremonial.</p> <p>The president is elected to a five-year term by MPs and local officials. Mr Ilves was re-elected for a second five-year term in August 2011.</p> <p>Born in 1953, Mr Ilves is a member of the centre-left Social Democratic Party.</p>	<p>Nicolae Timofti, a senior judge, was elected president in a parliamentary vote in March 2012, ending nearly three years of political stalemate.</p> <p>Aged 63 and chairman of Moldova&#039;s Supreme Magistrates Council at the time of his election, Mr Timofti is an independent who has never been involved in politics and has 36 years of experience as a judge.</p> <p>In an address to parliament before his election, he strongly supported the aspirations of Prime Minister Vlad Filat&#039;s government for European integration but also promised to be an apolitical president.</p> <p>Moldova had no full-time president since Vladimir Voronin, a Communist, resigned in September 2009.</p> <p>The opposition Communists, who reject the government&#039;s goal of integration with the EU, boycotted the vote in which Mr Timofti was chosen.</p>
President > Summary	Social Democrat Hendrik Toomas Ilves has occupied the largely cermonial role of president since 2006	Nicolae Timofti served as a senior judge
Prime minister	Andrus Ansip	Iurie Leanca
Prime minister > Profile	<p>The centre-right coalition led by Andrus Ansip increased its parliamentary majority in elections held in March 2011. </p><p>Mr Ansip thus bettered his own record of being Estonia&#039;s first sitting prime minister to be re-elected since the country quit the Soviet Union in 1991.</p> <p>He became prime minister in April 2005 and in March 2007 his centre-right Reform Party won parliamentary polls, but with too small a margin to govern alone.</p> <p>It went on to form a coalition with the conservative Pro Patria-Res Publica (IRL) and the Social Democrats.</p> <p>The re-election of the coalition in March 2011 was seen as voters rewarding the government for piloting the country through the economic crisis caused by the credit crunch of 2008, and into recovery.</p> <p>It was also Estonia&#039;s first election since joining the single European currency in January 2011. Mr Ansip had originally aimed for eurozone membership in January 2007 but high inflation led the government to put back the target entry date.</p> <p>Taking office for his third term, Mr Ansip said that improving the quality of people&#039;s lives was a top priority.</p> <p>But by late 2012, his party&#039;s opinion poll ratings fell to a record low as a result of popular anger at the quashing of a money-laundering and party funding case and the subsequent resignation of the justice minister, Kristen Michal. </p> <p>In the run-up to the March 2007 poll Mr Ansip backed legislation that paved the way for the removal of a controversial Red Army memorial in Tallinn. The law, and the subsequent relocation of the statue, sparked fury in Moscow.</p> <p>Andrus Ansip was 48 when he became premier. He entered national politics in 2004 following six years as mayor of Tartu, Estonia&#039;s second city.</p> <p>He is married and has three daughters. </p>	<p>Iurie Leanca was appointed acting prime minister in April 2013 after parliament passed a motion of no confidence in the government. </p> <p>He was subsequently approved as prime minister by parliament in May 2013. </p> <p>Before being appointed to government, Leanca spent his working life in various posts in the foreign ministry.</p>
Prime minister > Summary	Andrus Ansip is the longest-serving prime minister since independence in 1991	Prime Minister Iurie Leanca

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