ABSTRACT
The Reform Party was to a higher degree than the Coalition Party, the Rural Union and the Centre Party in favour of prolongation of the former government’s economic reform policy. Economic policy, privatization policy and nationality policy would continue unchanged within the already determined framework about which there obviously was a broad consensus among Estonian politicians. As coalition partner to the Coalition Party - Estonian politics was characterized by many coalitions - had prior to the parliamentary election been established the Rural Union headed by the former Chairman of the Supreme Council, Arnold Ruiitel. When the Government programme at the same time emphasized European Union and North Atlantic Treaty Organization membership as goals of high priority it is easy to imagine that an occasion might arise when the Estonians would consider it appropriate to change the nationality policy without breaking with ‘principles’.
