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Reform leader Kaja Kallas must make healing societal divides a priority, opposition Social Democratic Party (SDE) leader Indrek Saar said Saturday. Saar also warned Reform of risks in entering into office with Center, given the latter s litany of corruption accusations, charges and penalties over the past few years. In comments ahead of an SDE extended board meeting, Saar said that the Reform-Center pairing undergoing coalition discussions could count on his and his party s full support. Saar added that the events of the past days saw an ill-conceived plan for holding what he said was a socially divisive referendum on the definition of marriage shelved, following Jüri Ratas (Center) resignation early on Wednesday. ....
Jüri Ratas second term as prime minister landed him in a similar situation of being surrounded on all sides experienced by his predecessor at the helm of the Center Party, Edgar Savisaar, Meelis Oidsalu finds in Vikerraadio s daily comment. Political scientist Tõnis Saarts published a manifestly dashing book review titled Scholarly democracy. No, thank you last year in which he showcased the postulate of two Dutch social scientists according to which the Western political elite finds itself in an education bubble where professional politicians sporting myriad university diplomas are becoming increasingly alienated from the people and the elite s isolation is causing existential problems for representative democracy. ....
The political situation today is similar to right after 2019 Riigikogu elections, meaning that we could see the recent coalition continue, political scientist Martin Mölder says. One should not repeat the same mistake made after 2019 elections in terms of one s expectations when it was believed that [Reform Party leader] Kaja Kallas would form the government. While the ball is once again in her court and the president has quite properly asked her to form a government, the solution depends on the situation in the Riigikogu and which candidate will secure the majority. There are a lot of loose ends and the situation does not differ from 2019 for Kallas, Mölder told Vikerraadio s Uudis+ program on Wednesday. ....
Leading members of the opposition Social Democratic Party (SDE) think that Jüri Ratas (Center) resignation as prime minister early Wednesday morning should be followed by his party going into opposition, since the latest scandal involving a loan to a real estate development proves the party still needs to clean itself up. MEP Sven Mikser (SDE) says that Reform Party leader Kaja Kallas holds the key to this, with SDE s leader Indrek Saar saying Center continuing in office would be unethical. Ratas resigned early Wednesday following an Internal Security Service (ISS) investigation into a €39-million loan to a Tallinn real estate development by state credit agency KredEx. Five people, including Center s former Secretary-General Mihhail Korb, are under suspicion of corruption. ....
42 photos Photo: Saturday s constitutional affairs committee meeting, at which Anti Poolamets (EKRE) and Lauri Läänemets (SDE) were returned as committee chair and deputy chair respectively. Author: Ken Mürk/ERR Despite reports that both may have to leave their posts, the chair and deputy chair of the Riigikogu s constitutional affairs committee have been reelected. The election, via secret ballot, was triggered by deputy, Lauri Läänemets (SDE) resigning in protest at curbs on MPs speaking time when presenting their amendments to the marriage definition referendum bill. Läänemets leaving his post would have required the chair, Anti Poolamets (EKRE), who was overseeing the online meeting Friday at which MPs put forward their amendments, to also step, down, under Riigikogu regulations. ....