Estonian PM reaches agreement to regain majority in parliament

The parties agreed to vote to switch to the Estonian language only for pre-school and primary education

Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas' liberal Reform Party announced on Friday it reached an agreement to form a majority coalition in the parliament, following a month of negotiations, Qazet.az reports.

The Reform Party launched negotiations with the conservative Isamaa Party and the centre-left Social Democratic Party on June 11.

"Following today's agreements, the three political parties will form a joint government coalition", Reform said in a statement on Friday.

The parties, which will have 56 seats in the 101-member parliament, agreed to vote to switch to the Estonian language only for pre-school and primary education by 2024. Almost a quarter of Estonian's population is ethnically Russian, according to government figures.

Kallas told news portal Deli she agreed to resign, at a later date, and get reappointed by the new majority as part of forming the new cabinet.