Estonia’s main opposition party, conservative Fatherland (Isamaa), remains the country’s most popular political party, according to Norstat’s latest poll for the Institute for Societal Research (YI), ERR reports. Fatherland had 28.3% support among voters in the poll taken over August-September 2024, which was largely unchanged from the previous poll three weeks earlier. The ruling Estonian…
The youth wing of the Conservative People’s Party of Estonia (EKRE), Blue Awakening, will quit the far-right opposition party, ERR reports. The organisation decided to begin talks on joining the new right-wing party, Estonian Nationalists and Conservatives (ERK), which was formed mostly by former EKRE politicians. Eino Rantanen, the newly-elected chairman of Blue Awakening, said…
Estonia’s newly-formed opposition party, Estonian Nationalists and Conservatives (ERK), still needs 20 more members to be registered officially, ERR reports. A political party needs 500 members to be registered. ERK deputy chairman Silver Kuusik assured that the party would be registered in July 2024. ERK held its founding meeting on 29 June 2024, electing MP…