The Reform Party has reached the end of the road in terms of making concessions to Isamaa in the ongoing coalition talks, Prime Minister and Reform Party leader Kaja Kallas says.
Even journalists have been asking how and why parties who seemingly have no spirit of cooperation or mutual respect for one another, leave alone any love for one another, could come together for coalition talks, but this is to misunderstand the nature of Estonia's electoral cycle, laws, and party dynamics, writes ERR's head of news and sport Anvar Samost in a piece for regional daily Lääne Elu, against the backdrop of the Reform Party/Isamaa/Social Democrats ongoing negotiations.
The three parties locked into coalition talks, Reform, Isamaa and the Social Democrats (SDE), mostly focused on the concept of 'social electricity' in Monday's session, SDE leader Lauri Läänemets says. Läänemets also hinted that a breakthrough in the talks may be imminent this week, saying it would be 'strange not to agree' by this stage.
President Alar Karis has called recent remarks by prime minister Kaja Kallas (Reform) to the effect that current NATO plans for Estonia would entail the virtual destruction of the country and its people unwise and unnecessary.
The Reform Party, Isamaa and the Social Democrats (SDE) are in no hurry to reach any coalition agreement, one political scientist says, as the talks enter their fourth week.