According to Martin Helme, leader of the Conservative People's Party of Estonia (EKRE), the current energy crisis is not something inevitable, and that things can be done to rectify it. Helme believes, it would be possible to sell electricity to most consumers in Estonia for €30 per megawatt-hour.
Support for the coalition Reform Party has continued to ebb, while that for the opposition Conservative People's Party of Estonia (EKRE) has been rising, according to a recent survey.
The Reform Party lost one percentage point in support over the past week, according to a recent party preferences survey. Reform remains the most-supported party, followed by the Conservative People's Party of Estonia (EKRE), whose rating moved in the opposite direction over the past week as it gained close to one percentage point in support.
Support for the coalition Social Democrats (SDE) in August grew more than any of the other major political parties in Estonia, and is now just 1.5 percentage points behind non-parliamentary party Eesti 200, according to the combined results from the three major market research companies who conduct regular party rating surveys in Estonia.
Head of the Estonian Independence Party Sven Sildnik (also known as (:)kivisildnik – ed.), tells ERR in an interview that the party's activity is based strictly on the Constitution and that it has not considered merging with the Conservative People's Party (EKRE), which is something the latter also rules out.