Estonia PM set to regain majority in parliament

cde.news desk 11 June 2022, 13:52 · 1 min read

epa09781954 Estonia's Prime Minister Kaja Kallas speaks to the press as she arrives for an emergency European Union (EU) summit on the situation in Ukraine at the European Council building in Brussels, Belgium, 24 February 2022. A special meeting of the European Council was urgently convened to discuss the situation in Ukraine. Ahead of the summit, EU leaders issued a joint statement in which they 'condemn in the strongest possible terms Russia's unprecedented military aggression against Ukraine.' EPA-EFE/JOHN THYS / POOL

VILNIUS, June 11 (Reuters) – Estonian conservative opposition party Isamaa said on Saturday it would seek to join the Baltic country’s government, putting Prime Minister Kaja Kallas and her liberal Reform Party on track to regain a parliamentary majority.

Kallas last week removed her junior coalition partner, the Centre Party, after it had sided with a far-right group in parliament to vote down government reform of primary education.

(Reporting by Andrius Sytas in Vilnius; Editing by David Clarke)

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