VILNIUS: New Estonian Union voted to re-appoint Prime Minister Kaja Kallasin a move likely to ensure stability in European Union status until the March 2023 election.
The three-party coalition of Kallas’s Liberal Reform Party, the Conservative Isamaa Party and the centre-left Social Democrats combined has 55 members in the 101-seat parliament.
The new government will be sworn in on Monday. Each side will appoint five ministers to the cabinet, with Urmas Reinsalu of Isamaa becoming Foreign Minister.
Kallas has led a minority government since she removed her junior coalition partner, the Center Party, on June 3 after it sided with a far-right group in parliament to vote against the bills. government reforms to primary education.
The union has agreed to seek a vote at a later date on switching to Estonian only for preschool and primary education by 2024.
Almost a quarter of the population of the European Union and Nato According to government data, the member state of 1.3 million people is ethnic Russian.
The three-party coalition of Kallas’s Liberal Reform Party, the Conservative Isamaa Party and the centre-left Social Democrats combined has 55 members in the 101-seat parliament.
The new government will be sworn in on Monday. Each side will appoint five ministers to the cabinet, with Urmas Reinsalu of Isamaa becoming Foreign Minister.
Kallas has led a minority government since she removed her junior coalition partner, the Center Party, on June 3 after it sided with a far-right group in parliament to vote against the bills. government reforms to primary education.
The union has agreed to seek a vote at a later date on switching to Estonian only for preschool and primary education by 2024.
Almost a quarter of the population of the European Union and Nato According to government data, the member state of 1.3 million people is ethnic Russian.
