0 >Chairman of the Reform Party Kaja Kallas at the riigikogu sitting on Monday, December 14. Source: Ken Mürk/ERR
Support for the opposition Reform Party has dropped below 30 percent, marking the lowest level for the party after the 2019 general elections, it appears from the results of a survey commissioned by the Institute for the Study of Societal Issues and carried out by pollster Norstat Eesti AS.
The latest results show that the Reform Party is supported by 29.2 percent, the senior partner in the government coalition Center Party by 21.6 percent and the non-parliamentary Estonia 200 by 15.8 percent of voting-age citizens.
The latest aggregate results reflect the outcomes of polls taken between November 17 and December 14, in which altogether 4,000 voting-age citizens of Estonia were interviewed.
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Estonian parlt to continue handling of draft resolution on marriage referendum
BC, Tallinn, 14.12.2020.
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The Estonian parliament did not support a proposal by the opposition to reject the draft resolution on holding a referendum on the definition of marriage on December 14th, informs LETA/BNS.
The proposal submitted by the opposition Reform Party and Social Democratic Party (SDE) to reject the draft was voted out with 48 votes for and 51 against.
The parliament is thus to continue the handling of the of the draft resolution and the first reading thereof was concluded.
Three MPs of the coalition
The Riigikogu did not support a proposal by the opposition to reject the marriage referendum bill on Monday and the draft passed its first reading after a four-hour debate.
The proposal submitted by the opposition Reform Party and Social Democratic Party (SDE) to reject the bill was voted down with 48 votes for and 51 against.
Isamaa MPs Siim Kiisler, Üllar Saaremäe and Viktoria Ladõnskaja-Kubits voted in favor of rejecting the bill and Isamaa member Mihhail Lotman abstained.
Imre Sooäär, (Center) who has been critical of the marriage referendum, voted against the rejection of the bill. Mihhail Korb (Center) abstained.
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On Monday, the draft marriage referendum bill will undergo its first reading in the Riigikogu and the opposition parties intend to vote it out. This would fail if every member of the coalition voted against it, but there are several members who have already said they will not agree to a future referendum. ERR s Estonian language portal examined how sceptical coalition members intend to vote on the draft.
The governing coalition of the Center Party (25 members), EKRE (19 members) and the Isamaa (12 members) has 56 votes in total in the Riigikogu, giving them a majority to pass legislation when needed.
No vote is required for the draft marriage referendum bill to pass the first reading, but the opposition can propose to vote the draft out of procedure and the Riigikogu. Chairman of the Social Democratic Party Indrek Saar and leader of the Reform Party Kaja Kallas have told ERR their factions will make a proposal to do so.