Cabinet of Ratas I.

Prime Minister Jüri Ratas

The first government of the Republic of Estonia under Prime Minister Jüri Ratas ("Cabinet Ratas I") took office on November 23, 2016. According to official counts, it was the 49th government of the Republic of Estonia since its independence was proclaimed in 1918. After the parliamentary elections in 2019, it was replaced by the second cabinet under Jüri Ratas, which was sworn in on April 29, 2019.

Government formation

On November 9, 2016, the previous coalition government led by Prime Minister Taavi Rõivas (" Rõivas II Cabinet ") split up from the liberal reform party , the Estonian Social Democrats (SDE) and the conservative IRL . With the support of the opposition parties, the two smaller coalition partners SDE and IRL had successfully passed a no-confidence vote against Prime Minister Rõivas in the parliament ( Riigikogu ) .

Following the conclusion of the coalition negotiations between the Center Party , the Social Democrats and the IRL, the new government took office on 23 November 2016 under the leadership of Prime Minister Jüri Ratas (Center Party). The 38-year-old Ratas had only been elected party leader of the Center Party in November 2016; He succeeded Edgar Savisaar , the long-time chairman of the Center Party and Tallinn Mayor , who did not run for election.

composition

The Center Party initially had 27 MPs in parliament, the Social Democrats 15 and the IRL 14th of a member of the SDE shrank to 51 seats. With Tiina Kangro's resignation from the Isamaa parliamentary group (previously IRL parliamentary group), the government finally lost its majority in parliament in October 2018.

The government consisted of five members per coalition partner. The cabinet now consists of ten men and five women (at times eleven men and four women).

Cabinet members

Department	image	Surname	Political party
Prime Minister		Jüri Ratas		K
education and Science		Mailis Reps		K
Economy and Infrastructure		Kadri Samson		K
Rural development		Martin Repinski until December 12, 2016		K
		Tarmo Tamm since December 12, 2016		K
Public administration		Mihhail Korb until June 12, 2017		K
		Jaak Aab June 12, 2017 - May 2, 2018		K
		Janek Mäggi since May 2, 2018		K
environment		Marko Pomerants until June 12, 2017		IRL
		Siim-Valmar Kiisler since June 12, 2017		IRL
Finances		Sven Sester until June 12, 2017		IRL
		Toomas Tõniste since June 12, 2017		IRL
defense		Margus Tsahkna until June 12, 2017		IRL
		Jüri Luik since June 12, 2017		IRL
Social		Kaia Iva		IRL
Judiciary		Urmas pure salu		IRL
Foreign		Sven Mikser		SDE
Entrepreneurship and Information Technology		Urve Palo until August 22, 2018		SDE
		Rene Tammist since August 22, 2018		SDE
Culture		Indrek Saar		SDE
Health and work		Jevgeni Ossinovski until May 2, 2018		SDE
		Riina Sikkut since May 2, 2018		SDE
Interior		Andres Anvelt until November 26, 2018		SDE
		Katri Raik since November 26, 2018		SDE

Web links

• Coalition agreement (Estonian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original dated November 2, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ Prime Minister loses no confidence vote, forced to resign , news.err.ee, accessed on November 9, 2016
3. ↑ Another MP quits Center Party, this time for EKRE , news.err.ee, accessed September 10, 2018
4. ^ Tiina Kangro quits Pro Patria parliamentary group, goes independent , news.err.ee, accessed on October 8, 2018