Estonian leader’s party clinches new coalition government deal

Estonia’s Prime Minister Kaja Kallas (AP)

Estonia’s Prime Minister Kaja Kallas has said that her centre-right Reform Party has clinched a deal with two other parties to form a coalition government, five weeks after a general election in the Baltic country.

Officials with Ms Kallas’ pro-business Reform Party, which overwhelmingly won Estonia’s March 5 parliamentary election with 31.2% of the vote, the centrist Estonia 200 party and the Social Democratic Party said they would form the coalition after agreeing on government programmes for the next four years following lengthy talks.