Estonians are going to the polls Sunday for a parliamentary election. The coalition government of Prime Minister Taavi Roivas is expected to win as the Baltic state that was once part of the Soviet Union contends with a militarily resurgent Russia and a pro-Kremlin party. Roivas' Reform Party led in a TNS Emor opinion poll Friday with 26 percent of the vote, against the 22 percent of the pro-Kremlin Center Party. Analysts said the Center Party, supported mainly by ethnic Russians, would have a hard time finding coalition partners to form a government. About a quarter of Estonia's 1.3 million populate are Russian speakers. The 35-year-old Roivas is the European Union's youngest leader. Estonia joined the EU in 2004 and has the bloc's lowest public sector debt. Some material for this report came from AFP and Reuters.
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