Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas’s Reform Party has won 37 of the 100 seats in Parliament that were decided in the legislative elections of the Baltic country.

The formation Thus, he has achieved three more seats than in the last electionsalthough it is far from an absolute majority, so it would have to form a new coalition government, reports Estonian public television, ERR.

“It seems that the voter has spoken. From what I have seen on the screen, we have done quite well,” declared Kallas after obtaining 31.2% of the ballots. “I want to thank all the voters. Thanks for your trust. Thank you for the opportunity to lead the government for two years and for your position for your votes. We are very grateful for the evaluation you have made of our work. All of our candidates have done a great job and have gotten all these votes (…). It is teamwork. No one could have done it alone,” he said.

The Estonian Conservative People’s Party (EKRE) has been the next most voted after the liberals of Kallaswith 17 percent of the vote -17 seats–, while the Estonian Center Party has lost ten seats to obtain 16 seats.

The leader of the Center Party, Juri Ratas, has admitted that the electoral result has been “mediocre”, without wanting to comment on a possible resignation from office. Thus, he has mentioned that “society has changed after February 24”, in reference to the invasion of Ukraine, which began on that day.

“On the other hand, the party was in a difficult situation and we did not have the capacity to make a great campaign financially“, added Ratas. Behind these, there is a new liberal party, Eesti 200 (Estonia 200), which has won 14 deputies.

The Social Democratic Party (SDE), which governs in coalition with Kallas, has won nine seats, and the conservative Ismaa formation, also an ally of Kallas, eight. The leader of the EKRE party, Martin Helme, has expressed doubts about electronic voting and has requested a recount of the votes, maintaining that it does not recognize the result of the elections.

“Of course, we will challenge the electronic elections in the courts, we will demand records (…) Until we achieve it, we will not recognize the result of the election,” Helme indicated in his speech. Besides, Helme has considered that the campaign of his party has not had any weak point: “I think we had the right campaign messages, we had the right way to run the campaign,” he said.

For her part, the Prime Minister of Lithuania, Ingrida Simonyte, congratulated Kallas and the Reform Party on the electoral victory. “I look forward to further strengthening the ties of friendship and close cooperation between our countries!” has indicated in a message posted on his Twitter profile which has been accompanied by a photograph in which both policies embrace.