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The
three-party coalition of Kallas' liberal Reform Party, the
conservative Isamaa Party and the centre-left Social Democratic
Party combined have 55 members in the 101-seat parliament.
The new government will be sworn in on Monday. Each party will
appoint five ministers to the cabinet, with Isamaa's Urmas
Reinsalu becoming the Foreign Minister.
Kallas has led a minority government since she removed the
junior coalition partner, the Centre Party, on June 3 after it
sided with a far-right group in parliament to vote down
government reforms of primary education.
The coalition has agreed to seek a vote at a later date on
switching to the Estonian language only for pre-school and
primary education by 2024.
Almost a quarter of the population of the European Union and
NATO member nation of 1.3 million people are ethnically Russian,
according to government figures.
(Reporting by Andrius Sytas in Vilnius; Editing by Kirsten
Donovan and Hugh Lawson)
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