March 6, 2019

Estonia Avoids Populist Tremor with Pro-Business Party’s Victory

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A ballot is casted in a voting box during Estonia's general election in a voting station in Tallin, on March 3, 2019.
A ballot is casted in a voting box during Estonia's general election in a voting station in Tallin, on March 3, 2019.

Estonia’s Reform Party moved toward forming a government after upsetting Prime Minister Juri Ratas’s ruling coalition, vowing to exclude populists who’d threatened to shake up the political landscape in Sunday’s general elections.

Read more: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-03-03/estonian-reform-leads-vote-count-as-populists-threaten-stability

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