Prime Minister Kaja Kallas (Reform) says she has less optimism about the next head of state getting elected straight off the bat on August 30, than she earlier had done. Kallas made her remarks in the light of a compromise candidate, Tarmo Soomere, last week apparently failing to get the required support from among the ranks of her party, along with those of the Center, Isamaa and Social Democratic parties, and an ongoing impasse since then.