The Prime Minister of Estonia was involved in a controversy over the connection of her husband’s company with Russia. She is called for her resignation and Kaja Kallas accuses the opposition of a “witch hunt.”
Kaja Kallas’ husband’s business relations with Russia continue to raise eyebrows. This time, Estonia’s prime minister publicly defended herself against what she describes as a “witch hunt” carried out by the country’s opposition.
“This is a witch hunt by the opposition,” he said in statements to The Guardian newspaper, justifying that it is an “excuse to waste time in parliament” and that it aims to “obstruct the progressive agenda.”
The case became public in August and has forced the prime minister to defend herself on several occasions, first due to calls for her resignation, particularly from the opposition leader, Urmas Reinsalu. Kallas “does not see any other option” to stop the dimension that the issue has reached.
Kaja Kallas leads a pro-Ukraine government; In fact, when he went to the elections he made Russia the main enemy of Estonia, he took the lead in supporting Ukraine and in the confrontation with the country led by Putin and the strategy ended up bearing fruit, with the defeat of the extreme right. —, but since it became public that a transport company Stark Logistics, partially controlled by her husband, Arvo Hallik, was still operating in Russia after the invasion, this has complicated the head of Government’s life in political terms. .
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At the end of August, after the first news about the case, Kaja Kallas said that she did not know in detail about her husband’s business, but she believes that the company had done nothing wrong: “The company does not even buy fuel from Russia to avoid leaving a mark.” only euro or currency in Russia.”
In the statement cited by Sky News, the Estonian prime minister also revealed that her husband was trying to sell his share of the company. “We discussed the issue of transportation for our client. [na Rússia] on several occasions and we believed that we were doing the right thing, helping the right people and saving a good Estonian company; otherwise we couldn’t have done it.”
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Source: Observadora
