Estonia Avoids Populist Tremor With Pro-Business Party's Victory

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.

With gains by euroskeptic parties from Hungary to Italy raising worry of a nationalist tilt across the world’s largest trading bloc, voters in the Baltic country largely focused on domestic issues and gave mainstream forces a clear path to forming a government. It also all but guaranteed a continuation of political stability, in which one of the two top parties has led every cabinet save one since 2002.