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Cultural critic Meelis Oidsalu considers culture minister Anneli Ott's performance during her resignation speech was unconvincing, with the speech scripted by the party, while the minister herself was incompetent, he says. He also proposes a replacement candidate who he says would get the job done much more effectively - namely himself, though qualifies this with a dose of reality to the extent that this is not likely.
0"> Jüri Ratas (right) with host Arp Müller in the "Uudis+" studio last Friday. Source: ERR/ Anna-Maria Kurrel Former prime minister Jüri Ratas (Center) recently reflected on life after leaving the post last month, saying that he now has more time not only for family and friends, but also for the sauna. "We had an old [sauna] heater that we had used for over a couple of decades which just packed up. Since sauna has always played an important role in our family, I went to look for a new heater," Ratas told Vikerraadio show "Uudis+" last Friday, after being spotted...
With Prime Minister Kaja Kallas and her Reform-Center government having distributed ministerial portfolios over the weekend, nine MPs, mostly from Reform, will have to be changed out in Riigikogu. There are a few minor changes for Center Party's Riigikogu faction - outgoing prime minister Jüri Ratas will return to the Riigikogu, but as social affairs committee chairman Tõnis Mölder was appointed environment minister, Imre Sooäär will maintain his position in parliament, a post he took up in December. The remaining ministers from Center are either the same from the previous government or ...
On Friday, the Riigikogu board initated proceedings for a bill presented by 19 MPs that would equate a registered partnership contract to a marriage union. The bill was presented by 10 Center MPs and nine of the 10 opposition Social Democratic Party (SDE) MPs. The bill would subsume registered partnership contracts, implemented from October 9, 2014, and regulated by the Registered Partnership Act into the Family Law Act, rendering the Registered Partnership Act, also known as the cohabitation act, off the statute book. The bill follows the scrapping of a planned referendum on the definition o...
The change in government means at least five MP seats at the Riigikogu will change hands. Since the coalition discussions ahead of forming a new administration involve only Reform and the Center Party, the Conservative People's Party of Estonia (EKRE) and Isamaa ministers will no longer be in office. This affects two Isamaa MPs and two from EKRE, the fifth MP being Center's, since outgoing prime minister Jüri Ratas is to return to the Riigikogu. Those who were elected to the Riigikogu in March 2019 will retake their seats, those who were not, will not. Government ministers do not sit in the ...