The Estonian parliament, or Riigikogu, reelected Toomas Hendrik Ilves as president for another five-year term on Monday, dpa reported.
With 73 votes, Ilves achieved the two-thirds majority required of the 101-member body.
Ilves' only opposition - the Greens EU parliamentarian Indrek Tarand - received 25 votes. Two votes of the remaining votes were declared invalid and a third was deposited empty.
Ilves, a 57-year-old psychologist, garnered the votes of most of both ruling parties - the liberal Reform Party of Prime Minister Andrus Ansip and the conservative IRL, as well as the Social Democrats. The three have 75 members in parliament.
Estonia, the northernmost of the three Baltic States, gained independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. Since 2004, the country with a population of 1.3 million has been a member of the European Union and NATO. On January 1, Estonia became the 17th country to adopt the euro.
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