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Estonian PM removes coalition partner from government

FILE PHOTO: Estonia's new Prime Minister Kaja Kallas poses with members of her cabinet and Estonian President Kersti Kaljulaid in Tallinn, Estonia Janurary 26, 2021. REUTERS/Janis Laizans

Estonia's president, at the request of the prime minister, on Friday dismissed all cabinet ministers of the government's junior partner from the government, BNS news agency reported.

The seven dismissed ministers included Foreign Minister Eva-Maria Liimets, the agency reported.

Estonia's government is a coalition of Kallas' centre-right Reform party and the centre-left Centre Party, which together hold 59 seats in 101 member parliament.

FILE PHOTO: Foreign Minister of Estonia Eva-Maria Liimets speaks as she attends a news conference with her counterparts Zbigniew Rau of Poland, Gabrielius Landsbergis of Lithuania and Edgars Rinkevics of Latvia (not pictured) in Riga, Latvia April 29, 2022. REUTERS/Ints

(Reporting by Andrius Sytas in Vilnius, editing by Terje Solsvik)

FILE PHOTO: Estonia's new Prime Minister Kaja Kallas smiles as she introduces her cabinet to the president in Tallinn, Estonia Janurary 26, 2021. REUTERS/Janis Laizans
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