Edgar Savisaar

Edgar Savisaar’s first wife was Kaire Karon, and the couple have a son by the name Erki. He then married a woman named Liis Sirje Savisaar, with whom he has a daughter.

This Mayor’s third marriage was with Vilja Savisaar, who is also a politician of the same country, and their daughter is named Rosina. However, the couple declared to get divorced in the year 2009.

This politician has been the centre of controversy for using ‘Machiavellian’ political techniques, which involves incorporating deceptive methods to achieve political goals goals.

Edgar was born to Elmar Savisaar and Marie Burešin on 31st May 1950. Both his parents served few years in prison on charges related to property and taxation. As a result, Edgar was born at a prison located in Harku, a village belonging to the Estonian county Harju.

He has two siblings, a brother named Lembit Savisaar as well as a sister named Koidula Frolov.

He completed his elementary and secondary education from the Estonian city named Tartu. Later he started pursuing his education at the ‘University of Tartu’ in history and graduated in 1973.

As a candidate of philosophy, he penned a thesis titled ‘Social Philosophical Foundation of the Global Models of the Club of Rome’, in the year 1980.

During the period 1980-85, he served as the Chairperson of the ‘Planning Committee of Executive Committee’ of Tallinn Mere District Soviet.

He headed the Department of ‘National Planning Committee’ of Estonia SSR from 1985 to 1988.

This politician served at ‘Mainor’, a consultation establishment, as a research director during 1988-89.

He was then appointed the deputy chairman of the ‘Supreme Soviet of Estonian SSR’ and also headed the ‘Planning Committee’ of the state during 1989-90.

This leader then co-founded the party ‘Popular Front’ in the 1980’s and this party generated the phenomenon called ‘Singing Revolution’.

The party ‘Popular Front’ which was co-founded by Edgar in the 1980s moulded the ‘Singing Revolution’ and this phenomenon was instrumental in restoring the independence of Estonia as well as Latvia and Lithuania.