The Russian Embassy in Tallinn told about the fate of the law on depriving Russians of the right to vote

The collapse of the ruling coalition in Estonia may become an obstacle to the adoption of a law on depriving Russian citizens of the right to vote in local elections. This was stated to Izvestia at the Russian Embassy in Tallinn.

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"The collapse of the ruling Riigikogu coalition and the expulsion of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) from it could potentially become an obstacle to the implementation of this essentially racist initiative, since the SDP categorically opposes the addition of stateless persons to the list of persons deprived of the right to vote in municipal elections, while the remaining reformists and Estonia 200 recently announced its readiness to agree to the relevant demands of the opposition Conservative People's Party (EKRE) and Fatherland, albeit with the caveat that this should happen only in 2029," the diplomatic mission noted.

On March 10, the Reform Party and Estonia 200 decided to change the composition of the ruling coalition, excluding the Social Democrats from it. At first, it was decided to preserve the right to vote for stateless persons whose passports were issued by Estonia, and to take it away from citizens of the Russian Federation and Belarus. Then the Reform Party and Estonia 200 proposed to deprive non-citizens of the right to vote starting in 2029.

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