Ilves calls for end to party politics

May 13, 2009
By Ashley Brettell

TALLINN - In an unusual step, President Toomas Hendrick Ilves has appealed for the government to focus on the crisis at hand rather than on the party maneuvering that has recently dominated the country's political scene. "The government needs to stick together, at least until the crisis is over," Ilves said in an article in Eesti Paevaleht on the May 9. The governing coalition in Estonia has been publicly squabbling in recent weeks as Estonia faces its most challenging economic crisis since ...

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