Monday, March 7, 2011

Estonia: the center-right coalition wins parliamentary election

Estonian Prime Minister Andrus Ansip celebrating the victory. In Estonia, the center-right government of Prime Minister Andrus Ansip has won the parliamentary elections. As the Election Commission announced early Monday morning in Tallinn, come Ansips liberal Reform Party and the ruling conservative with her IRL after the preliminary results in the new "Riigikogu, the parliament, together on 56 of the 101 seats.


Thereby both parties TBD - the Reform Party won two additional seats on now 33, the IRL is now four to 23 seats. Ansip is therefore facing his third term in office. The opposition Social Democrats managed with an increase from 9 to 19 seats, the highest gains. The center lost 3 seats and 26 deputies will in future.

The 54-year-old Ansip is in office since 2005 and thus the longest-serving prime minister since the Baltic country's independence after the solution of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania from Moscow 1991st Under his leadership, Estonia joined with 1.3 million citizens of the year the euro zone.

State finances are as solid. The focus of the campaign had been especially tough austerity measures in the wake of Ansips financial and economic crisis 2008th Participated in the election almost 63 percent of the 913000 eligible voters. Estonia has introduced the first European country the chance to vote via the Internet.

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