{"id":8968,"date":"2021-01-26T14:50:21","date_gmt":"2021-01-26T14:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/?p=8968"},"modified":"2021-01-26T14:50:21","modified_gmt":"2021-01-26T14:50:21","slug":"estonias-new-government-sworn-in-with-first-women-prime-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/estonias-new-government-sworn-in-with-first-women-prime-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Estonia’s New Government Sworn in with First Women Prime Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"\"Islamabad; Monitoring Desk; Estonia\u2019s new two-party coalition government has been sworn in with the first female prime minister in the Baltic country since it regained independence in 1991.<\/h3>\n

The 15-member Cabinet of Prime Minister Kaja Kallas \u2014 a 43-year-old lawyer and a former European Parliament lawmaker \u2014 was approved Tuesday in the 101-seat Riigikogu legislature, after President Kersti Kaljulaid had first appointed it.<\/h3>\n

The center-right Reform Party, chaired by Kallas, and the left-leaning Center Party, which are Estonia\u2019s two biggest political parties, clinched a deal on Sunday to form a government replacing the previous Cabinet led by Center leader Juri Ratas that collapsed this month due to a corruption scandal.<\/h3>\n

Both parties have seven ministerial portfolios in the Cabinet in addition to Kallas\u2019 prime minister post. The government musters a comfortable majority in the Parliament.<\/h3>\n

The Reform Party emerged as the winner of Estonia’s 2019 general election under Kallas’ lead but she failed to form a government at the time.<\/h3>\n

Kallas stressed gender balance in forming the new Cabinet, placing several women in key positions such as Reform\u2019s Keit Pentus-Rosimannus as finance minister and Eva-Maria Liimets, Estonia’s ambassador to the Czech Republic, as the foreign minister.<\/h3>\n<\/section>\n
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Islamabad; Monitoring Desk; Estonia\u2019s new two-party coalition government has been sworn in with the first female prime minister in the Baltic country since it regained independence in 1991. The 15-member Cabinet of Prime Minister Kaja Kallas \u2014 a 43-year-old lawyer and a former European Parliament lawmaker \u2014 was approved Tuesday in the 101-seat Riigikogu legislature, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8969,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[93,84],"tags":[896,170,844],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8968"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8968"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8970,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8968\/revisions\/8970"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}