Estonia’s Premier Sees ‘Isolated, Bitter’ Future With Far Right
- Kallas faces challenge by anti-immigrant EKRE party March 5
- Kallas’s reform maintains lead with EKRE in second place
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Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas said her country faces a choice between the European mainstream or becoming an “isolated, bitter nation” under an increasingly popular far-right party less than eight weeks ahead of an election.
Kallas’s liberal Reform Party is leading in popularity ahead of the March 5 contest with 32% backing, while the nationalist EKRE party is in second place with 24.6%, according to a Norstat poll. Led by former Finance Minister Martin Helme, EKRE repeatedly courted controversy during a brief stint in government three years ago with members’ racist and homophobic comments.