Former Foreign Minister Eva-Maria Liimets (Center), in an interview with ERR, expressed hope that the current fragile situation, with a minority government and half-filled cabinet seats, will be resolved as fast as possible. She added that both the Reform and Center parties have good reasons to look back and to evaluate how to prevent future government crises and maintain coalition collaboration in the run-up to the upcoming elections.
Former interior minister Kristian Jaani says he is leaving politics and is quitting the Center Party, in order to pursue a continuation of his career in internal security.
The process in appointing a new head of the Internal Security Service (ISS) will be further delayed, while coalition negotiations are ongoing, Center Party MP Jaanus Karilaid says.
Due to the dismissal from office of the Center Party's component of the Estonian government last Friday, a planned meeting for Thursday focused on appointing the new chief of the Internal Security Service (ISS) will now not go ahead, meaning it will not yet be known who will replace Arnold Sinisalu as head of the authority from next year.
Former Minister of Foreign Affairs Eva-Maria Liimets and Minister of Interior Kristian Jaani suddenly lost their jobs on Friday when Prime Minister Kaja Kallas kicked the Center Party out of government. Both have said they will take a break before deciding what to do next, newspaper Postimees reported.