Estonia's centre-left coalition is fighting for survival in a general election Sunday, challenged by its traditional liberal rival but also a ...
TALLINN: Estonia's centre-left coalition is fighting for survival in a general election on Sunday , challenged by its traditional liberal rival but also a far-right party boosted by a backlash from mostly rural regions in the Baltic eurozone state.
Both strongly support EU and NATO membership and have favoured austerity to keep spending in check, giving Estonia the eurozone's lowest debt-to-GDP ratio. Staunchly eurosceptic, it called for an"Estxit" referendum on Estonia's EU membership, although the move would fail in the overwhelmingly pro-EU country.
He describes EKRE's position on liberal democracy, including civic and human rights, rule of law and the separation of powers as"very ambiguous". According to Mari-Liis Jakobson, a Tallinn University political sociologist, it remains unclear whether"mainstream parties will form a 'cordon sanitaire' around the more radical EKRE."The Centre party has long been the favourite of Estonia's Russian minority, which accounts for around a quarter of the Baltic state's population of 1.3 million.
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