Kaja Kallas runs for board of Estonian Reform Party

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MP Kaja Kallas has announced her candidacy for the governing board of the Reform Party on a platform of transforming the party into an open organization where the bases and processes of decision-making would be understandable to members of the party and the general public alike.

The goal of the Reform Party could be a country where one wants to live, Kallas said in her blog. "Tony Blair has said that a simple way to take measure of a country is to look whether people want in or want out. As a country Estonia competes with other countries for residents. Thus we should think how to make things so that more and more people would want to live here," Kallas said.

She listed reducing unemployment, increasing the birth rate, extending more support to children and families with children, dealing with the ageing of population and conducting a reform of the administration of the state as the steps necessary for that.

In communication within the party, Kallas wishes to introduce an attitude of respect both for fellow members of the party and political opponents. It is also important for all groups of society -- the young and the old, men and women -- to have equal weight in the party, she added.

Kallas, 35, was trained as a lawyer and worked as attorney and partner at two different law firms from 1998 to 2011. She joined the Reform Party in 2010 and won a seat in the Riigikogu on Reform's ticket in the general elections of 2011.

Kaja Kallas is daughter of Siim Kallas, the EU transport commissioner and former prime minister of Estonia.

The Reform Party is scheduled to hold its general assembly in the sports building of the Estonian University of Life Sciences in Tartu on May 25.

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