The Government will give the Jews one seat in the Upper Chamber of Parliament, President Konstantin Paets has informed Hirsch Eisenstadt, chairman of the Cultural Board of the Jews of Estonia. The President can name ten of the eighty members of the Chamber and one of them will be a member of the Jewish minority elected by the cultural board.
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