In January 2017, the Chairman of the Legal Affairs Committee of Parliament, Jaanus Karilaid (Centre Party), said that the implementing acts for the registered partnership law were unlikely to be adopted in the current term of Parliament, as passing these laws "would only result in new confrontations". At the same time, Karilaid suggested that Parliament did not have the numbers to repeal the underlying partnership law. Prime Minister Jüri Ratas echoed his suggestion, saying that the law would not be repealed by neither the current nor the subsequent Riigikogu. One month later, responding to a complaint filed in August 2016 (see above), the Tallinn Administrative Court ordered the Estonian Government to pay monetary damages for failing to adopt the implementing acts. The state later appealed the ruling. In September 2017, President Kersti Kaljulaid criticised the Parliament for failing to accept the implementing acts.