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Estonia: Political Developments and Data in 2022

Politics in the Shadow of the Russian-Ukrainian War

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2026

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Martin Mölder*
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Abstract

The Russian-Ukrainian war, which started in February 2022, changed Estonian domestic politics considerably. The Reform Party, which had failed to manage domestic crises at the end of 2021, was able to prove itself in foreign politics, and its support skyrocketed. Its coalition partner at the start of the war, the Centre Party, however, lost support, which eventually led to the break-up of the government coalition in the middle of the year. A new government was formed by the Reform Party, Fatherland and the Social Democratic Party, which was limited in its ambitions and cautious of its political choices as elections were approaching in March 2023.

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Political Data Yearbook , Volume 62 , Issue 1 , December 2023, pp. 141 - 155
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Copyright © 2023 European Consortium for Political Research

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