TALLINN: Estonia’s three-party coalition government collapsed on Monday as its two junior partners ended their cooperation with pro-Nato Prime Minister Taavi Roivas amid infighting over his leadership.
“For the Social Democrats SDE and conservative IRL party the cooperation with the Reform party in this government has finished,” Heidi Ojamaa, SDE spokeswoman told AFP.
In April 2015, Roivas’s 30-seat centre-right Reform party forged a coalition with the leftist Social Democrats and conservative IRL to command 59 seats in the 101-member parliament.
Estonia’s ERR public broadcaster reported that Social Democrats leader Jevgeni Ossinovski blamed disputes on economic, social, education and regional policy for triggering the …read more
Source: theSun
