The leadership of the Center Party has been making efforts to resurrect the party's former coalition with the Conservative People's Party of Estonia (EKRE) and Isamaa, investigative weekly Eesti Ekspress writes, claiming it fears that the Reform Party will triumph at the March 2023 election given Reform's soaring popularity in the current security crisis.
0 >The riigikogu sitting on Monday, December 14, where the marriage referendum bill passed its first reading. Source: Ken Mürk/ERR
According to daily newspaper Postimees, it is highly doubtful that the ruling coalition will get together a sufficient number of votes during the second reading of the draft resolution on a referendum on the definition of marriage for the draft to advance to its third and final vote.
In the first reading of the draft resolution of the Riigikogu, 48 members of the 101-seat chamber were in favor of dumping the bill, and 51 were against the proposal. Center Party member Mihhail Korb, who was absent from that sitting, likely counts as someone who will vote for the referendum plan this time, according to Postimees.