MP and former Minister of Education and Research Mailis Reps (Center) withdrew from participating in a Riigikogu anti-corruption special committee meeting focussed on the education ministry, and putting in place anti-corruption measures there, in the wake of Reps being charged with embezzlement. The former minister said she cannot give comment on a case in which she is the subject of investigation.
The meeting was due to start at noon and to be held remotely; Education ministry chancellor Mart Laidmets, Minister of Culture internal audit chief Krista Nelson, and Mailis Reps herself, were expected to attend. However, Reps announced Thursday morning that she wouldn t be taking part.
Põhiseaduskomisjon toetab poliitiliste nõunike huvide deklareerimist
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On Friday, the Riigikogu board initated proceedings for a bill presented by 19 MPs that would equate a registered partnership contract to a marriage union.
The bill was presented by 10 Center MPs and nine of the 10 opposition Social Democratic Party (SDE) MPs. The bill would subsume registered partnership contracts, implemented from October 9, 2014, and regulated by the Registered Partnership Act into the Family Law Act, rendering the Registered Partnership Act, also known as the cohabitation act, off the statute book.
The bill follows the scrapping of a planned referendum on the definition of marriage, which in turn fell by the wayside largely with the resignation of Jüri Ratas as prime minister earlier in the week, and consequently the exit of the Center-EKRE-Isamaa coalition.
Social Democratic (SDE) MP Eduard Odinets took his oath in the Riigkogu on Monday, replacing Katri Raik who has become mayor of Narva, during the first spring sitting of the Riigkogu on Monday.