TALLINN - Although Estonian parties are doing their best to catch voters with real life - if not populistic - issues during the current European Parliament election campaign, polls show that the average Estonian just isn't interested. According to the latest poll by Emor, only 33 percent of voters will definitely participate in the election, and around 28 percent will likely do so. Thus an estimated 40-odd percent participation rate would be far below the voter activity of the last general election in 2003.Among several possible reasons for this, one is that European issues are somewhat nov...
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