In Estonia, a good month after the government coalition collapsed, there is a new power alliance.
Prime Minister Kaja Kallas' liberal-business reform party, the Social Democrats and the conservative Isamaa party achieved a breakthrough in their negotiations on a tripartite alliance on Friday.
The three parties informed about this in identical messages.
After the agreement, the talks are to be continued until the conclusion of the coalition agreement.
The party leaders also want to agree on the distribution of ministerial departments in the Baltic EU and NATO country in the coming days.
"There were long and thorough negotiations, but tonight we reached an agreement," Kallas wrote on Facebook.
The Reform Party and the two previous opposition parties, which previously formed a three-party coalition, have a majority of 55 of the 101 seats in Parliament.
"The long-awaited clarity about the contours of the new coalition and government has finally arrived," commented President Alar Karis on the agreement.
According to an online report in the daily newspaper "Postimees", Kallas wants to announce her resignation in parliament as part of the formation of the new government.
After that, Karis is to formally nominate her as prime minister again.
With her governing coalition, she would then have to face a vote in parliament, the newspaper wrote.
In Estonia, the government alliance between the Reform Party and the left-wing Center Party broke up at the beginning of June.
This was preceded by disputes, power struggles and a political blockade that lasted for weeks.
Kallas had therefore terminated the two-party coalition that had existed since January 2021 and dismissed the seven ministers of the Center Party.
Since then she has ruled without a parliamentary majority.