Estonia’s new government sworn in with first female PM

Kaja Kallas. File Picture: AP Photo/Raul Mee

Estonia’s new two-party coalition government has been sworn in with the first female prime minister since the Baltic nation regained independence in 1991.

The 15-member cabinet of prime minister Kaja Kallas — a 43-year-old lawyer and a former European Parliament legislator — was approved on Tuesday in the 101-seat Riigikogu legislature, after President Kersti Kaljulaid had first appointed it.