By Months: Peeter Ernits

The legislative focus is on opposing and scrutinizing the government’s major bills, especially the ratification of the Tidö Agreement, for which the necessary threshold (a simple or three-quarters majority) is being debated. Criticism is also directed at legislative proposals that have required the intervention of the President or the Chancellor of Justice due to unconstitutionality, as well as the selection of international treaties.

The speaker is a strong opponent of several coalition bills: the super-database law (which the president has rejected twice), amendments to the Churches Act (seeing it as "thought control"), and the massive National Defence Act ("War and Peace"). He supports concrete and practical bills, such as accelerating the construction of shelters, and criticizes the sloppiness of the legislative process and the amount of discretionary power left to officials.

The speaker's main legislative priority is improving the quality of laws (the Error Correction Act) and blocking dangerous bills (the RAB superdatabase). He/She is a strong opponent of fast-tracking bills (two readings per week) and criticizes the government for its inability to resolve long-standing issues (the Waste Act, the Beekeeping Act).

The speaker focuses on the quality of legislation and the efficiency of the proceedings, criticizing the Riigikogu as a "rubber stamp" and demanding amendments to the Rules of Procedure and Internal Rules Act regarding ministerial accountability. He supports changing the Hunting Act to limit the influence of large carnivores and is critical of the transposition of bureaucratic directives (such as gender quotas and aviation conventions), which he considers to be insignificant substitute activities.

The speaker's main legislative priority is improving the quality of lawmaking, demanding adequate impact analyses and accountability. He is a strong opponent of bills that are detrimental to the public (the car tax) or that are adopted quickly and without substantive debate (e.g., the churches law). He criticizes time-wasting substitute activities (e.g., the EU gender balance directive) at a time when the economy is struggling.