By Months: Madis Kallas
Total Months: 14
Fully Profiled: 14
10.2025
12 Speeches
The speaker heavily emphasizes the education sector, stressing the crucial importance of raising teachers' salaries and enhancing the value of the profession. They demand a clear delineation of roles between the state and local municipalities, particularly concerning salary subsidies for kindergarten teachers, requesting at least a 50% increase in state funding for this purpose. The political focus is directed toward structural and regional educational issues, alongside strengthening teachers' rights.
09.2025
30 Speeches
The political focus is heavily directed toward reducing regional inequality in education and access to services, as well as ensuring financial stability. The speaker stresses the necessity of systemic solutions (e.g., standardizing teachers' salaries, parliamentary oversight of defense spending) and expresses concern regarding consumer loans and the high cost of living on the islands. These positions are primarily policy- and value-driven, focusing on improving the daily lives of people in every corner of Estonia.
06.2025
24 Speeches
The speaker is a powerful advocate for regional equality and social justice, consistently highlighting educational disparities and issues regarding the accessibility of public services outside Harju County. They sharply criticize the government's inaction in resolving regional imbalances and demand state budgetary intervention to ensure nationwide parity, citing the abolition of kindergarten fees as an example. Their positions are strongly policy- and value-based, focusing on rectifying systemic deficiencies.
05.2025
8 Speeches
The political focus is strongly centered on regional policy and environmental protection, emphasizing the fight against deepening regional inequality. The speaker opposes specific measures, such as closing the Vana-Vigala vocational school and revoking permanent resident benefits on the islands. These stances are value-based, stressing the protection of rural life and nature, and demanding concrete, long-term actions from the government. The erratic nature and instability of environmental governance are also criticized.
04.2025
3 Speeches
The political focus is centered on social and economic vulnerability, highlighting the rising debt burden and the difficulties people face in making ends meet. The speaker is a strong proponent of culture and sports, demanding more competitive wages and social guarantees for cultural workers. They oppose changes that restrict access to education, such as making a second higher education degree fee-based, underscoring the necessity of lifelong learning. Their views are strongly value-driven, focusing on the preservation of national culture and social justice.
03.2025
2 Speeches
The political position is clearly geared toward strongly supporting the revocation of voting rights for citizens of aggressor states, a stance the speaker has repeatedly voiced both in the Riigikogu (Parliament) and in the media. Furthermore, the speaker stresses the importance of the constitutional amendment process and condemns the unethical behavior of certain members of parliament, indicating a strong value-based approach to legislation. The primary focus areas are national security and parliamentary work ethics.
02.2025
4 Speeches
Politically, the speaker positions himself as a representative of the Social Democrats faction, focusing strongly on national security and public health. The main positions are the swift restriction of voting rights for citizens of aggressor states in local elections and resolute opposition to allowing Russian and Belarusian athletes onto the international arena. The speaker adopts a strong value-based stance, emphasizing national unity and moral responsibility against the backdrop of the war.
12.2024
7 Speeches
The political position is strongly aimed at supporting regional balance and the decentralization of state governance, emphasizing the necessity of moving jobs out of Tallinn and Tartu. The speaker supports the draft bill amending the Government of the Republic Act, viewing it as a crucial step in narrowing the regional divide. This stance is predominantly value- and policy-driven, highlighting the need for robust state intervention to halt negative urbanization trends.
11.2024
6 Speeches
The speaker strongly supports the administrative reform and the reorganization of state institutions, particularly the establishment of the Land and Space Agency (MaRu), emphasizing that these are long-term, cross-coalition processes. They advocate for reducing bureaucracy wherever feasible and support greater autonomy for local governments (LG), for instance, concerning land tax issues. The political focus is clearly aimed at policy- and performance-based management, stressing the consolidation of expertise and the improved utilization of data.
10.2024
2 Speeches
The political position is strongly value-based and security-oriented, firmly advocating for the disenfranchisement of pro-Putin individuals. The speaker stresses that the current situation is unacceptable to him or her and many other social democrats, and demands the swift development of concrete solutions ahead of the 2025 local government elections. Furthermore, interest is being shown in the historical background of the legislation and the impact that legal deadlines have on the judicial system.
09.2024
2 Speeches
The speaker heavily stresses the importance of regional political balance, criticizing the decision-making process centered on Harju County that fails to account for the lived experiences of other regions. He supports the decentralization of state workplaces and the continuation of the model involving officials working remotely/in the field. Furthermore, he is focused on strengthening data security to prevent the misuse of land register data.
07.2024
2 Speeches
The political focus is heavily centered on reducing regional inequality and mitigating the marginalization of peripheral areas, viewing this effort as settling a long-term obligation. The speaker strongly backs the current bill, which reforms local government funding to prevent Estonia from drifting toward an even greater state of disequilibrium. This position is rooted in both policy and values, stressing the necessity of taking decisive action and not fearing change.
06.2024
6 Speeches
The political focus is strongly directed towards increasing the autonomy and trust placed in local authorities (LAs), especially in the context of amendments to the Land Tax Act, where LAs are granted greater decision-making power in determining the growth limit. The speaker also considers the stronger involvement of LAs in crisis resolution to be important. The political framework is trust-based, emphasizing that LAs make decisions closer to the people than the Riigikogu (Parliament) in Toompea. Another important priority is the establishment of the Land and Spatial Planning Agency (MaRu) to reduce fragmentation and improve the country’s competence in spatial planning.
05.2024
9 Speeches
The speaker, a social democrat, focuses strongly on reducing regional inequality and increasing the financial autonomy of local governments, which they vigorously support. They are critical of the cuts necessary to achieve state budget stability, preferring instead a review of taxation, and see the only societal readiness for implementing a national defense tax. Their framework is rather value-based (regional justice) and policy-based (local government autonomy).