Lembit Arro


Lembit Arro is an Estonian politician and judge who was most notable for being a voter for the Estonian restoration of Independence.
Arro graduated in 1944 from Kabala Primary School, in 1957 as a high school for the preparation for Kehtna Collective Farmers and in 1969 as an agronomist at the Estonian Agricultural Academy, now the Estonian University of Life Sciences.
He was chairman of the Kaiu collective farm, one of the most successful collective farms in Soviet Estonia, from 1959 to 1990.
From 1990 to 1992, he was a member of the Supreme Council of the Republic of Estonia, initially belonging to the Rural Affairs Committee, later to the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs. Between 1992 and 1999, he was a member of the Riigikogu, first receiving 3305 votes; and being reelected in 1995 with 2,480 votes. In 1999, he ran again for the Riigikogu for the Estonian Coalition Party, but only received 293 votes, and as such, was not reelected.

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