The center-right Reform Party of Prime Minister Kaja Kallas, one of Europe’s most outspoken supporters of Ukraine, overwhelmingly won the Baltic country’s general election, while a far-right populist challenger lost seats in a vote that focused on national security and the economy. Preliminary returns from a completed ballot count showed that the Reform Party, the senior partner in the outgoing three-party coalition government, received 31.2 percent of the vote — the biggest share in the March 5 election. That translates into 37 seats in Estonia's 101-seat parliament, or Riigikogu, an increase of three seats from the 2019 election.
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