{"id":6401,"date":"2013-10-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-05T15:36:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heakodanik.ee\/en\/2013\/10\/11\/tallinn-city-center-party-sweep-ngos-elections-hall-of-shame__trashed\/"},"modified":"2016-09-27T21:30:42","modified_gmt":"2016-09-27T18:30:42","slug":"tallinn-city-center-party-sweep-ngos-elections-hall-of-shame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/heakodanik.ee\/en\/news\/tallinn-city-center-party-sweep-ngos-elections-hall-of-shame\/","title":{"rendered":"Tallinn City, Center Party Sweep NGOs&#039; Elections Hall of Shame"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<strong><span>After reports that the city spent 65,000 euros on yesterday&#039;s opening ceremonies &#8211; from an overpass and tunnel project in the morning to a fireworks show last night &#8211; Tallinn&#039;s city government rose to first in the Hall of Shame rankings compiled periodically by a network of NGOs.&nbsp;<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\n\tBesides a giant effigy of the Old Man of &Uuml;lemiste, a mythical figure &#8211; which cost just under 10,000 euros for a show that was only several minutes long &#8211; Tallinn came under fire for organizing a nationwide series of Popular Front 25th anniversary events. The Center Party is descended from the Popular Front independence movement. &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\n\tNone of the eight pundits who rank the most unethical practices ahead of local elections belong to a political party, though the Center Party is not represented among those members who have former affiliations.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tSecond-most shameful was a letter sent by Tallinn City Council Chairman&nbsp;Toomas Vitsut to officials emblazoned with a picture of himself that warned them that the other &quot;candidates for mayor are planning to sack you&quot; and hire their own minions instead.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThird was again the Tallinn City Government, for allegedly intimidating voters at a local government forum titled &quot;Satan votes over the Internet.&quot; The topic was the alleged lack of security of e-voting.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tNumber four had to do with concealing party affiliation in mail ads, while five criticized the distribution of campaign ads for city district elder Mikhail Korb (Center) at a Tallinn social center. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>\n\t&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>\n\thttp:\/\/news.err.ee\/politics\/8dc43f9d-c4c7-4faa-923c-8e6d900e51b5<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After reports that the city spent 65,000 euros on yesterday&#039;s opening ceremonies &#8211; 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