2023-05-09 08:07:53
On Monday, the Tartu County Court entered the Koos movement into the register of political parties, writes BNS, writes BNS, citing Rus.Postimees.
In the commercial register, the party is listed under the long name KOOS organisatsioon osutab suveräänsusele (“The Koos Organization Points to Sovereignty”). The board members of the party are Oleg Ivanov, Eduard Fedotov, Leila Eerits, Aleksey Teterev and Yulia Smoli.
The Koos movement emerged at the end of March 2022. In this year’s elections to the Riigikogu, the association’s members were on the same list as the Estonian United Left Party. Ivanov told Rus.Postimees in January that the alliance with the Left Party was supposed to last until May because the court did not give them the right to register the party.
“Our application was returned four times without explaining what our mistakes were. We corrected what we found and resubmitted, but so far to no avail. But we want to get into parliament, and for this we need a tool that will allow us to exert real influence,” Ivanov said at the time. In the parliamentary elections, the Left Party won 2.4 percent of the vote, making it eligible for modest state funding for four years.
It is not clear from the commercial register exactly how many members Koos has. However, according to the law on political parties, at least 500 members are required to form a party.
One of the leaders of the movement, Aivo Peterson, who won 3968 votes in the elections to the Riigikogu, has been in custody since the beginning of March on suspicion of creating a connection against the Republic of Estonia.
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