The Board of the Riigikogu on Tuesday decided to convene an additional sitting of the Riigikogu on Thursday, June 16, where a motion of no confidence submitted against Minister of Education and Research Liina Kersna (Reform) will be put up to a vote.
The ruling Reform-Center government coalition does not intend to make any changes to the amendments to the Aliens Act recently vetoed by President Alar Karis, and intends to pass them as-is, Prime Minister Kaja Kallas (Reform) said. Center MP Tõnis Mölder confirmed the same.
I suppose that the Riigikogu has lost the role a parliament should have in a parliamentary country. It is not a place of wise compromises based on the will of the people, which parliamentarism suggests it should be, but one where legislation that pleases the coalition is passed using brute force, Jaak Valge writes.
Riigikogu speaker and former prime minister Jüri Ratas (Center) wrote a letter to Prime Minister Kaja Kallas (Reform), in which he called Kallas to tell ministers to participate in Riigikogu committee meetings, since they often send other officials to take part for them.