Postimees Digest, Tuesday, March 26

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Reform Party rating continues to recover.

Support rating of the ruling Reform Party, that first recovered from its end of the year plunge in February, continued to grow in March and has now reached 25 percent, the recent TNS Emor poll suggests. Reformists' coalition partner Pro Patria Res Public Union (IRL) has lost two points over the past month to land at 15 percent while opposition forces the Center Party and the Social Democrat Party have managed to hold on to their lead with 26 and 27 percent accordingly. People with no clear predilection amounted to 39 percent. The survey was carried out among 915 people.

Survey expert Aivar Voog said that IRL's result most probably reflects the party's recent recruitment scandal while the centrists' politicization of city officials fiasco did not hurt the opposition party as much due to its constituency's relatively lower media sensitivity. "That immunity to media attention has reflected in the party's support rating for years," Voog said. Chairman of the Reform Party faction of the Riigikogu Jaanus Tamkivi said that the party's rating is on the road to recovery and that he believes the party will be able to gain quite a few additional points by summer.

Editorial: with failure not tolerated, few will succeed

Just a little over 2 per cent of Estonia’s population get their income from enterprise, show Statistical Office census data. True: that is a bit more than in 2000, but the percentage is sadly low, pointing to Estonians still poorly prepared to launch into business.

Reasons vary. On the one hand, the fragility of traditions may come into play – for historic reasons, we still lack businesses passed down the generations, providing security for sustainable entrepreneurship.

But on the other hand, it might be unwillingness to face risk – the unavoidable companion in business.

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