While support for the Reform Party has fallen during the current coronavirus restrictions, the party is still the most popular, a recent survey commissioned by the Institute for the Study of Societal Issues and carried out by pollster Norstat shows.
Reform is supported by 32.3 percent, Center by 19.7 percent and Estonian Conservative People s Party (EKRE) by 18.9 percent of voting-age citizens. During its six-week drop, the Reform Party has shed 3.2 percentage points. Support for Center and EKRE remained unchanged compared with last week s survey results.
The top three are followed by the non-parliamentary party Eesti 200 with 13.4 percent, the opposition Social Democratic Party (SDE) with 6.7 percent and the opposition Isamaa with 5.5 percent. Support for Eesti 200 rose by 1 percentage point compared with last week and has moved up by 2 percentage points over the past two weeks.
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0 >The second day of coalition negotiations between the Reform and Center parties on January 15. Source: Siim Lõvi /ERR
The new coalition will announce the division of ministries on Friday and new ministers will be agreed over the weekend. The new government is planning to take office on Tuesday (January 26). Today [Friday] we are polishing what we have already agreed on and going over the areas we don t have an agreement for, Chairman of the Reform Party Kaja Kallas told ERR.
The plan is also to allocate ministerial positions. The plan is there, but we ll see if we reach an agreement, Kallas said.