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New cases of Reform Party vote fraud in Viljandi County.

The Reform Party has found 11 new cases of vote fraud, this time in Viljandi County, whereas the region's branch manager Ott Kukk has admitted to rigging votes in four cases. Kukk said he apologizes to his fellow party members and said he did it to cut corners in his work. Kukk said that neither his employer nor any candidate asked him to rig votes. The party's investigative working group will continue to look into possible cases of vote fraud in other counties. The ruling party evicted MEP Kristiina Ojuland and its Lääne-Viru County branch manager Taimi Samblik yesterday as the women were found guilty of rigging dozens of votes at the party's in-house election by its court of honor.

Justice chancellor contests environmental fee hike in Supreme Court.

Chancellor of Justice Indrek Teder has turned to the Supreme Court in order to have decalred unconstitutional regulations that prescribe a faster than planned hike of environmental fees in 2013. While the government initially planned to hike mining rights fees and some special use of water rights fees on two separate occasions by 5 percent for the period of 2010-2015, it decided in April this year to deliver a much more abroad hike of almost 20 percent on three occasions. The justice chancellor concludes that while the state is entirely within its rights when it comes to laying down and collecting environmental fees, such hikes need to be in accordance with the constitutional principle of legitimate expectation. Teder said that the government was obligated to keep in mind the fact that it was making a binding promise when it initially laid down the fees for the next five years in 2009.

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