Kaja Kallas

Estonia's premier, one of NATO's most vocal supporters of Ukraine, vowed to forge a new coalition government after securing a solid election victory over a ...

The use of i-voting in Estonia has been on the rise since it was first introduced in 2005 and is now the dominant form of voting.

For Marcus the lack of take-up is an issue of technology rather than security. Distinct from e-voting – which uses electronic devices to record votes, the Estonian i-voting system relies on a mobile app. At first, in the early 2000s, it was cabinet members who used an i-voting service, allowing them to vote on agenda items while on the move. This year, all Estonians living abroad were included in the electorate. on Sunday, 63.7 percent of registered voters had cast their ballot - the same as 2019. Estonia smashed its i-voting record on when, for the first time more than half of voters marked their ballots online during the national Parliamentary elections.

Kaja Kallas was 11 at the time. To travel to East Berlin from her native Estonia, then still under Russian occupation as part of the Soviet Union, was a big ...

She leads a small country, but she is taking her message to an international audience: Ukraine’s crisis is a European crisis, and a crisis facing the West as a whole. “It will be harder and harder to keep the unity. For many, the invasion has proved too huge an event to fit into their way of thinking, with their focus reduced to the immediate and the tactical. But I think some things you just don’t have to say out loud.” I am reminded of this comment when, later in our discussion, she refers to “countries that have much better neighbours than we do”, saying “they don’t feel it in the way that we feel it”. I get a glimpse of that when I wander back down the narrow streets of Toompea Hill and past the Russian embassy in Tallinn, with a glorious display of pro-Ukrainian banners, flags and posters outside. I suspect that it is this combination of the sober, calm and frank Estonian style with searing historical experience that makes Kallas such an effective European leader. Being a small nation next to a power like Russia and subjected to long years of occupation and domination will do that to you. So it means that aggression really pays off.” If this happens, she adds, it will only be a matter of time until Putin acts again: “If Russia is not punished for what they are doing, then there will be a pause of one, two years, and then everything will continue: the atrocities, the human suffering, everything.” She adds that it will not just be Ukraine at risk of an emboldened Putin. She returned to Tallinn to head the Reform Party, winning a leadership election in April 2018, and became Estonia’s first ever female prime minister in January 2021, at the helm of a coalition with the centre-left Estonian Centre Party. Since then, Kallas has emerged as something of an Iron Lady for today’s Europe, setting the standard for a robust and serious response to Putin’s unprovoked onslaught. “I think what everybody has to understand is that peace is not an ultimate goal if it means that the aggression pays off,” she says. “I am of the lucky generation,” she says.

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — The center-right Reform Party of Prime Minister Kaja Kallas, one of Europe's most outspoken supporters of Ukraine, ...

Her father Siim Kallas, an honorary chairman of the Reform Party, was also elected to the Riigikogu. Kaja Kallas is a 45-year-old lawyer and former lawmaker at the European Parliament. But it will need junior partners to form a coalition with a comfortable majority to govern. The Center Party, which is traditionally favored by Estonia’s sizable ethnic Russian minority, was third with 15.3% of the vote. Kallas emerged as the most popular candidate in the election with 31,821 votes, a record in Estonia’s political history. Apart from weapons, Estonia is providing Kyiv with substantial humanitarian assistance and has welcomed more than 60,000 Ukrainian refugees.

Preliminary returns from a completed ballot count showed the Reform Party, the senior partner in the outgoing three-party coalition government, received 31.2 ...

That translates into 37 seats at Estonia’s 101-seat Parliament, or Riigikogu, an increase of three seats from the 2019 election. Estonia: Reform Party of Prime Minister Kaja Kallas overwhelmingly wins Baltic country’s general election In Estonia, Reform Party of Prime Minister Kaja Kallas overwhelmingly won the Baltic country’s general election.

The initial results mean the Reform Party is in a remarkably strong position to take a leading role in forming Estonia's next government.

Her father Siim Kallas, an honorary chairman of the Reform Party, was also elected to the Riigikogu. Kaja Kallas is a 45-year-old lawyer and former lawmaker at the European Parliament. But it will need junior partners to form a coalition with a comfortable majority to govern. The Center Party, which is traditionally favored by Estonia’s sizable ethnic Russian minority, was third with 15.3% of the vote. Kallas emerged as the most popular candidate in the election with 31,821 votes, a record in Estonia’s political history. Apart from weapons, Estonia is providing Kyiv with substantial humanitarian assistance and has welcomed more than 60,000 Ukrainian refugees.

The Reform party of Estonian prime minister Kaja Kallas has increased its share of the vote to secure a landslide parliamentary election victory.

PM welcomes endorsement of liberal values and support for Ukraine as far-right rival loses assembly seats.

“It seems their campaign stance, flatly ignoring their rivals’ arguments and making themselves into something of a pariah, scared potential voters off,” he said. Its far-right rival, the Conservative People’s party (EKRE), lost two seats, finishing second with 17. Kallas said talks with possible coalition partners could begin on Tuesday. The Centre party, traditionally popular with Estonia’s large Russian-speaking minority, has largely supported her policy towards Ukraine and Russia, prompting a collapse in its electoral support and the loss of 10 parliamentary seats. [finished first](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/05/estonias-pm-kaja-kallas-secures-election-win-with-pro-ukraine-stance) in Sunday’s elections on 31.2% of the vote, giving it 37 MPs in Estonia’s 101-seat assembly, three more than in the previous parliament. [said](https://twitter.com/kajakallas/status/1632705568568664065) on Monday she felt “humble and grateful” for a result that showed Estonians “overwhelmingly value liberal values, security founded on EU and Nato, and firm support to Ukraine”.

TALLINN – European heads of state are congratulating Kaja Kallas and the Estonian Reform Party on their election victory on social media, ...

Thank you for your steadfast support of Ukraine," Shmyhal tweeted. Since the beginning of the war, Kaja Kallas has been a strong voice for our support to Ukraine. "Congratulations to Kaja Kallas on the decisive victory of her Reform Party in the Estonian parliamentary elections.

Estonia's pro-Ukrainian 'Iron Lady' Prime Minister Kaja Kallas has won re-election, gaining the largest personal vote in the country's history.

Siim Kallas, her father, was a well-known politician who also worked for the European institutions. When Kaja Kallas was only eleven years old, on a trip to West Berlin her father told her: “Breathe the air of freedom”. Thank you for your steadfast support of Ukraine”. [@kajakallas ](https://twitter.com/kajakallas)after today’s victory in the Estonian elections. Palju õnne, Kaja”, tweeted Roberta Metsola, the EP President. Estonia’s popular Prime Minister, Kaja Kallas, swept to victory in the country’s elections this Sunday, March 5.

Terry McDonald chats with the Estonian prime minister, Kaja Kallas. “My priority is Estonia. When nobody knows about you, nobody knows when you're gone. That is ...

Indifference to the brutality and violence that is going on in Ukraine. What can be surmised from the recent visit of Chinese officials with Vladimir Putin? “In this war, there is one aggressor and one victim.