(ANSA) - TALLINN, 25 JAN - The 43-year-old European Kaja Kallassar will be the first female premier of Estonia.
Parliament has given free rein today to his coalition government, which will swear by tomorrow.
Kallas therefore joins the now increasingly long list of women leaders in the countries of Northern Europe: the heads of government of neighboring Lithuania, Norway, Finland, Iceland, Denmark and Germany are women.
Kallas, a former MEP and leader of the Reform Party, is a daughter of art: her father is former Prime Minister Siim Kallas, who was also European Commissioner with Barroso.
Kallas will govern in coalition with the Center Party of the outgoing Prime Minister Juri Ratas.
His government will be able to rely on a package of 59 MPs out of 101 members of the Estonian parliament and has won the support of 70 MPs in the vote of confidence after having received support from the Social Democrats.
Speaking before parliament as the small eurozone Baltic state struggles against the Covid-19 pandemic, Kallas vowed to "keep Estonia as open as possible, so that people can go to work, children to school and business. economic can continue ".
His government, he said, "will be like a tightrope walker on an abyss, always mindful of the balance" between controlling the pandemic and economic activity.
(HANDLE).