Page "History of Estonia" Paragraph 120

The 2007 Parliamentary Elections have shown an improvement in the scores of the Reform Party, gaining 12 seats and reaching 31 MPs ; the Centre Party held, while the unified right-conservative Union of Pro Patria and Res Publica lost 16.

Socialdemocrats gained 4 seats, while the Greens entered the Parliaments with 7 seats, at the expenses of the agrarian People's Union which lost 6.

The new configuration of the Estonian Parliament shows a prevalence of the centre-left parties.

The Centre Party, led by the mayor of Tallinn Edgar Savisaar, has been increasingly excluded from collaboration, since his open collaboration with Putin's United Russia party, real estate scandals in Tallinn, and the Bronze Soldier controversy, considered as a deliberate attempt of splitting the Estonian society by provoking the Russian minority.

The lack of a concrete possibility for government alternance in Estonia has been quoted as a concern.