Editing History of Estonia (section)

==== 2007 election ====

The [[2007 Estonian parliamentary election|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 expense of the agrarian [[People's Union of Estonia|People's Union]] which lost 6. The new configuration of the Estonian Parliament shows a prevalence of 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 [[Vladimir Putin|Putin]]'s [[United Russia]] party, real estate scandals in Tallinn,<ref name="savisaarrealestate">[https://archive.today/20120728210611/http://www.delfi.ee/archive/article.php?id=11378593 Savisaar's and Kruuda's mutual gifts]</ref> and the [[Bronze Soldier]] controversy, considered as a deliberate attempt of splitting the Estonian society by provoking the Russian minority.<ref name="splitter">[http://postimees.ee/300407/esileht/arvamus/257922.php Lõhestaja number üks] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071006120354/http://www.postimees.ee/300407/esileht/arvamus/257922.php |date=6 October 2007 }} Postimees</ref> The lack of a concrete possibility for government alternance in Estonia has been quoted as a concern.<ref name=presseurop/>