This, along with a dodgy privatisation deal on the Central Market, got the opposition to file a no-confidence motion against City Council Chairman Edgar Savisaar of the Centre Party. Different ideas on fiscal policy clearly. Lieutenant Jaanus Karm was found guilty of negligence over the Kurkse tragedy , in which 14 soldiers drowned during a training session. The highly emotional trial ended with a sentence of four and a half years in prison for Karm. The victims' families protested the prison sentence, saying they will appeal to President Lennart Meri.
Football fans are in shock.
Already falling dangerously close to not making Euro 2000, the Estonian national team found itself in hot water, when a large group of players was blacklisted by the police for failing to serve their mandatory time in the military. The players may be barred from travelling abroad due to the blacklisting. But there is at least one success story. Aalborg, joining a growing group of Estonian nationals playing in top leagues around Europe, such as goalkeeper Mart Poom of Derby County in the English Premiership. Something that few would believe on election day, but the government approved a preliminary set of customs tariffs .