The left-leaning Estonian Centre Party won the general elections in Estonia on Sunday as predicted. However, according to initial results,it will only get 28 places in the 101-member parliament, the same amount of seats as the newcomer Res Publica. The new centre-right Res Publica was expected to do well, but few predicted it would gain as much as 24,6 per cent of the vote. The winning party gained less than one per cent more, at 25,4.
The centre-right Reform Party came in third, with a...
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