Estonia’s liberal opposition wins election, far right surges: full results

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Sun, 2019-03-03 22:42

TALLINN: Estonia’s opposition liberal Reform party won Sunday’s general election, outpacing center-left Prime Minister Juri Ratas’s party and a surging far-right buoyed by a backlash from mostly rural voters in the Baltic eurozone state.
Led by former MEP Kaja Kallas, Reform garnered 29 percent of the vote, well ahead of Ratas’s Center party on 22.8 percent, with the far-right EKRE more than doubling its previous election score at 17.8 percent, according to results from 98.5 percent of polling stations, Estonia’s official state elections website said.

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