Both the Ministry of the Interior and the Ministry of Justice are demanding a clear statement from Metropolitan Eugene, head of the Estonian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate (MPEÕK), condemning Russia's military aggression in Ukraine.
Zero tolerance on domestic violence against women and children requires close cooperation between authorities and institutions, Minister of Justice Lea Danilson-Järg (Isamaa) said. Estonia is one of the signatories of the Istanbul Convention on Violence against Women, while the minister has also confirmed the raising of the age of consent in Estonia to 16, from November 1 this year.
Minister of Internal Affairs, head of the Social Democratic Party (SDE) Lauri Läänemets has sent a letter to Minister of Justice Lea Danilson-Järg (Isamaa), urging the ministry to expedite its own bill to empower the Political Parties Funding Surveillance Committee (ERJK).
Amendments to the Political Parties Act initiated during the previous government's time have, following a round of coordination, gotten stuck in the Ministry of Justice. Minister Lea Danilson-Järg described the bill to ramp up party funding supervision as a second-rate topic.
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.