The Estonian Reform Party’s candidate for mayor of Tallinn, businessman Urmas Sõõrumaa, wants to form a technocratic city government with no executive politicians, like in Helsinki, ERR reports. At the same time, he said that the new city government would follow guidelines from Reform and the Estonian Centre Party. He insisted that the city had too many deputy mayors at the moment, suggesting that two to four would be sufficient. Sõõrumaa has held talks on a possible new coalition with all parties in Tallinn, except the Conservative People’s Party of Estonia (EKRE). Reform plans to call a vote of no confidence in current mayor Jevgeni Ossinovski of the Social Democratic Party (SDE). Meanwhile, Ossinovski has dismissed Reform’s deputy mayors and city district heads. Reform’s current coalition partners, SDE, Fatherland (Isamaa), and Estonia 200, have accused the party of engineering a political crisis in Tallinn ahead of local elections due in October 2025.
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