TALLINN (Reuters) - Estonia's Centre party leader Juri Ratas secured parliament's support on Wednesday to continue as prime minister and form a new government that will bring a far-right party into the cabinet for the first time.
Ratas secured support from 55 lawmakers in parliament, exceeding the 51 votes required to form a new government and continue as prime minister.
Ratas, prime minister since late 2016, lost a March 3 election in which the centre-right Reform Party emerged the largest party.
Ratas blocked Reform's leader Kaja Kallas from taking power by agreeing a surprise coalition between his left-leaning Centre, the conservative Fatherland party and the far-right EKRE, giving the three parties a majority in parliament.
(Reporting by Tarmo Virki, editing by Anna Ringstrom and Susan Fenton)