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It is only a month since Jüri Ratas announced his resignation as prime minister, and with it the end of the Center/EKRE/Isamaa coalition, and the start of the process for forming a new government, ERR senior journalist Toomas Sildam writes. However, time is not on Kallas side, Sildam continues, with the next parliamentary elections due in two years time and the pandemic ongoing, even as Kallas may have thought from the outset that her way of doing things would be very different from her predecessor s. Kallas and the Reform Party already knew about the investigations into the Center Party, relating to a development in central Tallinn, on January 13 – the day Jüri Ratas (Center) resgined as prime minister, Sildam writes. ....
The Center Party will be cutting half a million euros from its budget in light of new suspicions of corruption, party chairman, outgoing PM Jüri Ratas said on Sunday. I had to present to the board a draft budget including appropriate and future-oriented cuts – saving of nearly half a million euros in all, Ratas said, describing figures that characterize the party s fiscal situation as thought-provoking. We need to go over a lot of expenses, make cuts and difficult staffing decisions, Ratas said in a speech given during a party council meeting on Sunday. Thank you desk officers, coordinators and bureau staff, he added. The effects of these decisions are wide-ranging, while we had no other choice, the Center chairman admitted. ....
Ministerial appointments in Kaja Kallas' incoming government show that fundamental decisions will be made in party backrooms and not on the ministry level, former head of the opposition Conservative People's Party (EKRE) Mart Helme finds. ....
Democracy is an illusion – what matters is not the choices people make at elections or their ability to participate through referendums but the approval or veto of European parties. Jaak Madison writes about the influence of major parties over domestic counterparts following the example of the Center Party. There is a conviction in society that parties are formed based on different worldviews and ideologies. Whether what sets a party apart is left- or right-wing economic policy or a more socially liberal or conservative worldview depends on each individual party. However, the recent government crisis and the reasons behind the incoming coalition of the Reform Party and Center Party make it impossible to ignore the influence of pan-European parties towering above our local ones. The polemic and debate revolving around the marriage referendum that saw the intervention of high-ranking European party functionaries was the clearest proof of this. ....
Existing and incoming leaders would do well to keep a cool head instead of gloating and passing judgment. The implementing provisions of the Registered Partnership Act will be passed sooner or later, while no one is in such a hurry to warrant doing it right away, Indrek Kiisler writes. I wrote a short opinion piece in July in which I proposed canceling the planned marriage referendum in the interests of peace. Naturally, that did not happen. The last six months have only added to emotions, anger and anxiety in society. That layer is now thicker than the snowdrifts outside. The emotional tapestry is still there and cannot be rolled up any time soon. ....