14 Facts About Raimond Kaljulaid

Raimond Kaljulaid was born on 27 January 1982 and is an Estonian politician, who has served as a member of the Estonian Parliament since 2019.

Raimond Kaljulaid is chair of the Estonia-Japan friendship group in parliament and leads a parliamentary group promoting the Estonian Defence Industry.

In 2019, Raimond Kaljulaid was elected in the list of Centre Party, but quit the party in protest of Centre Party's decision to form a coalition cabinet with the Conservative People's Party, and joined the Social Democratic Party in November 2019 and was re-elected as a Member of Parliament in 2024.

Raimond Kaljulaid began his political career in 2002 as a public relations advisor of Edgar Savisaar, the then Mayor of Tallinn and father of his partner at the time Maria.

Raimond Kaljulaid left the position in 2004 and went on to create his own marketing and public relations company which became the main organiser of Centre party's bull sheet election campaigns for the next 15 years.

In March 2016, Raimond Kaljulaid was appointed to the post of Elder of Pohja-Tallinn district of Tallinn.

Raimond Kaljulaid was suspected in abetting embezzlement in connection to the corruption probe into Center Party Chairman Edgar Savisaar, but the Prosecutor General dropped the charges due to lack of public interest in the proceedings with Kaljulaid agreeing to pay 1,000 euros into state budget and 800 euros to cover the cost of an expert opinion.

In 2016, Raimond Kaljulaid was elected to the board of directors of the Center Party.

Raimond Kaljulaid opposed the party's coalition with the right wing Conservative People's Party and quit the party in protest.

Raimond Kaljulaid ran independently in the European Parliament elections in 2019.

On 7 November 2019, Raimond Kaljulaid joined the Estonian Social Democratic Party.

In 2020, Raimond Kaljulaid was elected as the leader of the Social Democrats in the capital city of Estonia, Tallinn.

In June 2019 Raimond Kaljulaid announced his marriage to Jane Palm.

Raimond Kaljulaid has said that although knowing each of other's existence, they were not close nor spent time together in their childhoods.