According to Mayor Jevgeni Ossinovski, during its meeting on Monday, Tallinn City Government decided to send a draft decree to the city council for approval, which would abolish attendance fees at Tallinn’s municipal kindergartens from September 1.
The session was held on the same day the Reform Party had announced it would accept Ossinovski’s offer to re-join to ruling coalition in Tallinn, on condition that kindergarten fees are abolished.
The decision was not unanimous, with neither Eesti 200 nor Isamaa voting in favor.
Aleksei Jašin, deputy mayor for education and head of the Eesti 200’s Tallinn branch, previously told ERR that Eesti 200 could not support the abolition of kindergarten fees because representatives of both municipal and private kindergartens were against it.
Jašin added that his coalition partners would know where to find the missing votes to get the decision passed through. It is well-known that the proposal to abolish the nursery school fee has been put forward not only by the Reform Party but also by the Center Party.
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