Estonia: the fall of the Rõivas cabinet and the end of isolation of the Centre Party

Prime Minister Taavi Rõivas, the leader of the liberal and pro-Western Reform Party, which had governed Estonia since 2001, lost support of his coalition partners, and the parliament passed a no confidence motion against him on 9 November 2016.

Since 7 November 2016, the Social Democrats and the conservative party Pro Patria and Res Publica Union (IRL) have been engaged in talks on building a new coalition with the main opposition force – the Centre Party. The prime minister did not intend to resign, but all the parliamentary groupings but the reformists backed the vote of no confidence against him. The inability to co-operate among the government coalition partners led to the October crisis over the election of the president of Estonia.

ESO: Background information: Estonian government collapses and a new coalition is formed http://www.europeansources.info/record/estonian-government-collapses-and-a-new-coalition-is-formed/

ESO: Background information: The transforming structure of the EU and Estonian politics: Some aspects of the freedom of association at European level http://www.europeansources.info/record/the-transforming-structure-of-the-eu-and-estonian-politics-some-aspects-of-the-freedom-of-association-at-european-level/

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