Prime Minister Kaja Kallas (Reform) said that because she has not caused the current government crisis, she cannot be the one to solve it. The ball is in the Center Party's court that must say it will not be taking the Family Benefits Act bill further and is willing to look for a solution to this problem and all others.
A meeting between the Reform Party and the Center Party failed to reach full agreement on support measures for the ongoing energy price crisis facing both private consumers and businesses and larger organizations, but some common ground has been met, Center's leader, Jüri Ratas, says. At the same time, Reform's leader, and the prime minister, Kaja Kallas, says that Center is throwing out lots of suggestions on how to solve the situation which can potentially muddy the waters and are not based on substantive factual data – a luxury which Center has as the junior coalition partner, she says.
Even though Prime Minister Kaja Kallas (Reform) said that her controversial proposals for new coronavirus measures came from a group of experts, the government's communication bureau has been unable to give ERR a straight answer in terms of the group's makeup and who came up with particular proposals.
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Finance minister and Conservative People s Party of Estonia (EKRE) leader Martin Helme said on Tuesday that his party has never received money or any other rewards, following corruption allegations made surrounding a loan to a major Tallinn real estate development.
However, Helme has suspended his adviser at the ministry, Kersti Kracht, who is subject to a secret services investigation into suspected corruption.
Helme said: Both personally and as a leader of a political party, I ve always had zero tolerance for corruption. Such serious accusations naturally cause great concern and dismay for me.
Kracht is under suspicion from the Internal Security Service (ISS, also known as the KaPo) of influence peddling in the granting of a controversial €39-million loan to a Tallinn real estate development by state credit agency KredEx.