Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas said that it would take time to deprive Russian citizens living in the country of their right to vote, as changes to the constitution are necessary. His words lead the way MISTAKE.
According to him, the original plan was to suspend the voting rights of citizens of Russia and Belarus until the end of hostilities in Ukraine, but now the president and the justice minister say that this is impossible without changes to the basic law.
“The Ministry of Justice will make a new analysis and offer a new option on how this can be done by changing the constitution. Perhaps the Riigikogu will indeed support this option with an overwhelming majority,” Kallas said.
Before this, Estonian Minister of Justice Kalle Laanet statedIt is stated that the issue of depriving Russian citizens permanently residing in the country of the right to vote in local elections has reached an impasse due to the attitude of the Social Democrats.
“To date, we have not made any progress on this issue. On the one hand, there are legal and political arguments supporting the restriction, and on the other hand, there are arguments that this cannot be done without changing the constitution. In fact, we have reached an impasse,” said Laanet.
Previously Estonia promised not to interfere with the Russian presidential elections, which will be held at the embassy.