Estonia
Estonian PM reaches agreement to regain majority in parliament
Estonian Prime Minster Kaja Kallas (pictured)' Reform Party announced Friday (8 July) that it had reached an agreement to form a majority coalition within the parliament. This was after a month of negotiations.
Kallas resigned from her junior coalition partner, Centre Party, on June 3, after it joined forces with a far right group in parliament to defeat government reform of primary education.
On 11 June, the Reform Party began negotiations with the center-left Social Democratic Party and the conservative Isamaa Party.
Reform stated in a Friday statement that the parties would form a coalition government "Following today’s agreements", Reform added.
The 56-member parties will be represented in the 101-member parliament. They have agreed to vote for the switch to Estonian to be used only for primary and pre-school education. According to government statistics, almost a quarter of Estonia's population are Russian-educated.
Kallas said to Deli that she would resign at a later date and be reappointed by new majority members as part of the formation of the new cabinet.
March 2023 is the date set for the next elections in Europe and NATO member nations of 1.3million people.
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