Voting stations have opened inEstonia'sfirst Parliamentary election as a eurozone member, with opinion polls showing the center-right government could win another term after steering one of Europe's most depressed economies back to growth.
Unlike Irish voters, who punished their government last month for their own boom-to-bust experience, Estonians appear to have retained confidence in Prime Minister Andrus Ansip’s coalition government going into Sunday’s election.
TheBalticcountry of 1.3 million became the 17th nation to adopt the euro on Jan. 1. after enduring its deepest recession since regaining independence from theSovietUnion in 1991.
Growth has returned and the jobless rate has dropped, but at 14 percent it’s still among the highest in the EU.
