Estonia: Political Developments and Data in 2021

Abstract

There was one government change and two elections in Estonia in 2021. In January, the Ratas II government, led by the Centre Party and also including the populist Estonian Conservative People's Party and the conservative Fatherland, was replaced by the K. Kallas I government, a coalition of the liberal Reform Party and the Centre Party. Indirect presidential elections were held at the end of August and Parliament elected Alar Karis as the new President of the Republic. Local elections took place in October and did not produce any major surprises. Regular day-to-day politics and campaigning were overshadowed by waves of COVID-19 in spring and autumn, and the onset of an energy crisis at the end of the year.