The new cabinet was formed following Kaja Kallas’s departure for Brussels to serve as the head of EU diplomacy.

Kristen Michal of Kallas’s center-right and liberal Reform party will head the new government, with six other ministers from Reform, who will take over the defense, finance, economic affairs, social protection, climate, and culture portfolios.

Hanno Pevkur (Reform), the new defense minister, did not take the oath as he is currently on an official visit to the U.S.

The center-left Social Democratic Party (SDE) received control over four ministries: interior, health, and regional affairs, as well as the newly created post of infrastructure minister, which has been separated from the climate ministry.

The centrist and liberal Estonia 200 (E200) will get the foreign, education, and justice posts.

The makeup of the cabinet remains largely the same, with nine of its ministers having served under Kallas. In the government reshuffle, the SDE received an additional ministerial post of the minister of infrastructure, which will be taken over by Vladimir Svet, who, until his appointment to the cabinet, served as a councilor and deputy mayor of Estonia’s capital city of Tallinn.

On Sunday, Svet announced he is leaving the centrist and populist Center Party, marking another hit for the formation that has been bleeding both support and representatives in various Estonian legislative bodies since September 2023, when its new leadership decided to attempt to appeal more to Estonia’s considerable Russian-speaking minority.

The center-right-to-center-left coalition controls 66 seats in Estonia’s 101-seat unicameral parliament, the Riigikogu.