The Reform Party has added its support to Isamaa MPs' bill that aims to take away the local elections voting right of third country citizens but wants to limit its effect to Russian and Belarusian citizens. The party is willing to amend the Constitution if necessary.
Current Estonian electoral law, which bars the right of prison inmates to vote in elections, could, in the most extreme situation, lead to an annulment of election results, on the grounds of the law being unconstitutional, the head of Estonia's electoral oversights body says.
Should the Riigikogu revoke the right to vote in local elections of third country citizens permanently residing in Estonia as proposed by an Isamaa bill, Chancellor of Justice Ülle Madise will very probably launch constitutional review proceedings in the parliament and the Supreme Court if necessary.
Estonia does not support mandatory quotas for refugees, but it did expect greater support from the EU in compensating the costs incurred in connection with war refugees from Ukraine, MP Toomas Kivimägi (Reform), chairperson of the Constitutional Committee of the Riigikogu, said in Paris on Monday.
The Riigikogu Anti-Corruption Committee held an extraordinary election on Monday. The committee will be chaired by the Social Democratic Party's (SDE) Riina Sikkut, with the post of deputy chairman going to Valdo Randpere (Reform).