{"id":41279,"date":"2019-05-27T13:05:23","date_gmt":"2019-05-27T10:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.riigikogu.ee\/pressiteated\/select-committees-riigikogu-elected-chairs\/"},"modified":"2019-05-27T13:05:23","modified_gmt":"2019-05-27T10:05:23","slug":"select-committees-riigikogu-elected-chairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.riigikogu.ee\/en\/pressiteated\/select-committees-riigikogu-elected-chairs\/","title":{"rendered":"Select committees of the Riigikogu elected their chairs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Alar Laneman<\/strong> is the Chairman and <strong>Hanno Pevkur<\/strong> is the Deputy Chairman of the Security Authorities Surveillance Select Committee of the Riigikogu. <strong>Heiki Hepner<\/strong>, <strong>Kaido H\u00f6\u00f6velson<\/strong> and <strong>Ivari Padar<\/strong> are members of the Security Authorities Surveillance Select Committee.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Katri Raik<\/strong> is the Chairperson and <strong>Marek J\u00fcrgenson<\/strong> is the Deputy Chairman of the Anti-Corruption Select Committee of the Riigikogu. <strong>Mart Nutt<\/strong>, <strong>Paul Puustusmaa<\/strong> and <strong>Andres Sutt<\/strong> are members of the Anti-Corruption Select Committee.<\/p>\n<p><strong>J\u00fcrgen Ligi<\/strong> is the Chairman and <strong>Martin Repinski<\/strong> is the Deputy Chairman of the State Budget Control Select Committee of the Riigikogu. <strong>Peeter Ernits<\/strong>, <strong>Aivar Kokk<\/strong> and <strong>Kalvi K\u00f5va<\/strong> are members of the State Budget Control Select Committee.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fotoarhiiv.riigikogu.ee\/xiv-riigikogu\/xiv-riigikogu-komisjonid\/\"><em>Photos<\/em><\/a><em> (will be uploaded with a delay)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Security Authorities Surveillance Select Committee, the Anti-Corruption Select Committee and the State Budget Control Select Committee of the Riigikogu (Parliament of Estonia) elected their chairs and deputy chairs at the sittings of the committees today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":41269,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"news_related_unit":[142,141,143],"news_expired_unit":[],"class_list":["post-41279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-releases","news_related_unit-anti-corruption-select-committee","news_related_unit-security-authorities-surveillance-select-committee","news_related_unit-state-budget-control-select-committee"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Select committees of the Riigikogu elected their chairs &#8211; 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