The election winner Kaja Kallas invited the market liberal Eesti 200 and the Social Democrats to the government negotiations. Kallas’ reform party won Sunday’s parliamentary election overwhelmingly.
TALLINN There is no more need to argue about basic issues, such as the rights of same-sex couples or supporting Ukraine.
This is how a member of the party board of the Eesti 200 party Margus Tsakhna summarized the starting points of the Estonian government negotiations (you will switch to another service).
The negotiations began with the leader of the reform party, which won the elections, the prime minister Kaja Kallasen in charge today in Tallinn.
There are three value-liberal parties. In addition to the Reform Party and Eesti 200, the Social Democrats participate in the government negotiations.
Kallas’ party is by far the largest. It now has 37 seats in Estonia’s 101-seat parliament, the Riigikogu. Eesti 200 has 14 seats and the Social Democrats 9.
On value and environmental issues, the parties are on the same lines. For example, the changes to other laws caused by the Gender-Neutral Partnership Act have stalled for a long time. Now they are finally coming true.
However, the parties must seek compromises when it comes to balancing the state economy, taxation and spending cuts.
The national economy is in the red, the need to cut up to a billion
The Reform Party and Eesti 200 are economically liberal parties that would balance the state economy primarily by cutting spending. The Social Democrats emphasize increasing incomes.
The outgoing government’s finance minister by Annely Akkermann according to the need for surgery next year up to one billion euros (you switch to another service). State the expenses are this year (you switch to another service) 16.8 billion euros and the state economy has a deficit of 2.6 billion euros.
Chairman of the Social Democrats Lauri Läänemets knocked out such huge spending cuts at today’s press conference.
For Eesti 200, balancing the state finances is one of the key issues. According to Läänemets priority is people’s livelihood (you will switch to another service)especially easing the position of low-income earners.