上周日在位于巴爾干半島的愛沙尼亞議會(huì)選舉中,，中間偏右翼政黨改革黨贏得29.4%的選票,。若能成功組建聯(lián)合政府，改革黨黨首卡婭·卡拉斯將成為愛沙尼亞歷史上第一位女總理,。

此次大選中,，愛沙尼亞執(zhí)政黨中間黨支持率排名第二，得票23.1%,，極右翼的保守人民黨獲得17.8%的選票,，得票為上次選舉的兩倍。根據(jù)此前的民調(diào),，中間偏左的中間黨本有望獲勝,，卻被擁有親商平臺(tái)的改革黨力壓一頭。改革黨和中間黨均傾向歐盟,，自1991年愛沙尼亞從蘇聯(lián)獨(dú)立以來,，兩黨一直輪流執(zhí)政。

卡婭·卡拉斯現(xiàn)年41歲,，是一名律師,，專攻數(shù)字領(lǐng)域的案件。她曾任歐洲議會(huì)的議員?，F(xiàn)在改革黨的任務(wù)是跟其他黨派磋商組成聯(lián)合政府,。卡婭的父親西姆·卡拉斯曾任愛沙尼亞第14任總理,，也曾擔(dān)任歐盟委員會(huì)委員,。克爾斯季·卡柳萊德是愛沙尼亞第一位女總統(tǒng),，2016年上任,，不過總統(tǒng)一職只具象征意義，并沒有多少實(shí)權(quán),。

In last Sunday’s parliamentary election in Estonia, the center-right Reform party won 29.4% of the vote, setting up its leader Kaja Kallas to become the first female prime minister of the Baltic country, so long as she can form a coalition government.

Estonia’s ruling Centre party took second place with 23.1%, and the far-right Estonian Conservative People’s Party took 17.8% of the vote, double its last showing. The center-left Centre party had been expected to win based on polling, but the Reform party, which has a pro-business platform, pulled ahead. The Reform and Centre parties, both pro-EU, have alternated in power since Estonia’s independence from the Soviet Union in 1991.

Kallas, a 41-year-old lawyer and a former member of the EU Parliament who specialized on digital issues, and the Reform party now must negotiate with other parties to create a government coalition. Her father, Siim Kallas, was the 14th Estonian prime minister and was an EU commissioner. Estonia’s first female president, Kersti Kaljulaid, has been in office since 2016, though the role is largely ceremonial.

愛沙尼亞是個(gè)彈丸小國(guó),，但在進(jìn)軍數(shù)字領(lǐng)域方面極為激進(jìn),。其地理位置夾在俄羅斯和拉脫維亞中間，僅有130萬人口,。借助積極的互聯(lián)網(wǎng)經(jīng)濟(jì)思維,，愛沙尼亞已經(jīng)成為全球電子政務(wù)領(lǐng)域的佼佼者。2000年,，愛沙尼亞成為全球首個(gè)宣稱上網(wǎng)屬于基本民權(quán)的國(guó)家,。同年通過法律，認(rèn)定數(shù)字簽名與手寫簽名具有相同合法的地位,。已被微軟收購(gòu)的即時(shí)通訊軟件Skype就在愛沙尼亞問世,。總部設(shè)在倫敦的轉(zhuǎn)賬匯款服務(wù)商TransferWise也在愛沙尼亞創(chuàng)立,。愛沙尼亞人從2005年起便可以在網(wǎng)上參與選舉投票,。英國(guó)廣播公司（BBC）報(bào)道稱，上周日的大選期間,，愛沙尼亞全國(guó)88.1萬合格選民有將近四分之一都在網(wǎng)上投票,，稅務(wù)、公共支出和歐盟成員國(guó)身份是選民最關(guān)心的問題,。

卡拉斯競(jìng)選時(shí)承諾,，將采取減稅和下調(diào)失業(yè)保險(xiǎn)保費(fèi)等措施，目標(biāo)是創(chuàng)造更多就業(yè),。贏得大選后幾小時(shí)內(nèi),，她又承諾考慮聯(lián)合其他四大政黨中的三個(gè)黨派，排除了與極右翼保守人民黨合作的可能,，稱“不會(huì)考慮”,。（財(cái)富中文網(wǎng)）

Estonia is a little country with a big digital footprint. Nestled next to Russia and Latvia with 1.3 million residents, Estonia‘s progressive thinking about the Internet economy has made it a leader in e-government. In 2000, it became the first country in the world to declare Internet access a basic human right; that same year it passed a law giving digital signatures equal weight to handwritten ones. Skype, now owned by Microsoft, was created in Estonia. And money service TransferWise was founded by Estonians based in London. Estonians have been able to vote online since 2005. The BBC reports nearly a quarter of Estonia’s 881,000 eligible voters used e-voting in last Sunday’s election, in which issues like taxes, public spending, and EU membership were top of mind.

On the campaign trail, Kallas promised to cut taxes and unemployment insurance premiums, with the aim of creating jobs. In the hours since winning the election, she’s vowed to consider allying with three of Estonia’s four other parties; she’s ruled out working with the far-right Conservative People’s party, calling it “not a choice for us.”