Social Democratic Party (SDE) MP Jevgeni Ossinovski has decided to leave the Riigikogu and will continue as Tallinn city council chairman. His seat will go to alternate member Anastassia Kovalenko who said she will be siding with the Center Party in the parliament.
The latest sitting of the Tallinn City Council spelled out a fact which the officials have been stubbornly ignoring so far: the construction of the Tallinn Hospital in Lasnamägi district requires the removal of limestone in an amount equal to two year’s output of the Väo quarry.
As Jevgeni Ossinovski has not yet given up his seat in the Riigikogu to fully transition to his new position as chairman of the Tallinn city council, he has not been reimbursed for the work he has done as city council chairman, a position paying €6,100 a month.