cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/1900657
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Archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20230825192013/https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/estonia-pm-kallas-under-pressure-quit-over-husbands-russia-ties-2023-08-25/
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VILNIUS, Aug 25 (Reuters) - Estonia’s Prime Minister Kaja Kallas faced pressure to resign on Friday after reports that her husband has part ownership of a company that has kept operations in Russia since Moscow invaded Ukraine.
President Alar Karis and the leader of Social Democrats, the minority partner in Kallas’ coalition government, called on Thursday on the prime minister to provide a detailed explanation.
As a result, Postimees gives the prime minister the friendly advice that she start packing up today, to avoid leaving under even more shame, in the future", it said.
ERR reported that two opinion polls conducted by the Institute for Societal Studies/Nordstat and Turu-uuringute showed a 57% and 69% respectively of respondents thought Kallas should quit.
Kallas’ husband announced on Friday he would sell his stake in the company and resign from its board of directors, ERR reported.
Kallas’ liberal Reform party, in power since 2021, won a general election in March, taking 37 seats in the 101-member parliament.
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