Prime Minister Kaja Kallas (Reform) should have resigned, along with the government, on Friday, Center Party chair and Riigikogu speaker Jüri Ratas says.
Three of the Center Party's seven government ministers are to return to the Riigikogu as MPs, following Prime Minister Kaja Kallas' (Reform) dismissal of the Center Party, the junior coalition partner, from office Friday.
Kaja Kallas' dismissal of Center Party ministers and her decision to remain in office has blown the cover on a coup plotted by opposition party Isamaa's leadership, to reinstate the coalition it was in with Center and the Conservative People's Party of Estonia (EKRE), Social Democrat (SDE) MP Jevgeni Ossinovski says.
The opposition Social Democratic Party (SDE) has accepted the Reform Party's invitation to form up a coalition. According to Lauri Läänemets, the chairman of the party, Estonia needs a polite but competent and reliable government.
Kaja Kallas called me a few minutes before issuing the press release on the dissolution of the cabinet, while the premiere was clear in her intent a few weeks ago, Center Party chairman Jüri Ratas told ERR.