By Months: Aivar Kokk
Total Months: 19
Fully Profiled: 19
10.2025
27 Speeches
The political position is strongly opposed to the car tax, demanding its complete repeal and labeling it a hostile bill that punishes the populace. Emphasis is placed on supporting families, criticizing the government's previous cut to large family benefits (€2,400) and the current insignificant reinstatement. This position clearly reflects the stance of the Isamaa Party, which promises to abolish the tax no later than after the 2027 Riigikogu elections.
09.2025
38 Speeches
The speaker consistently adopts a critical stance toward government decisions, particularly regarding environmental policy and public sector governance. He strongly advocates for reinstating the tax exemption on residential land and introducing tax benefits for young workers. Despite this oppositional posture, he also puts forward constructive proposals aimed at improving economic policy.
06.2025
57 Speeches
The speaker clearly represents the positions of the Isamaa Party, maintaining consistent critical opposition to the governing coalition. They strongly oppose tax hikes, specifically the car tax, excise duties, and the removal of the income tax exemption for high earners. Emphasis is placed on business-friendly policies and the necessity of economic growth achieved through tax cuts. The speaker positions themselves as a defender of the people's interests against the government’s "tax festival."
05.2025
36 Speeches
The speaker clearly represents the positions of the Isamaa Party, consistently maintaining an opposition role against the government's tax hikes. They strongly advocate for lowering taxes and reducing bureaucracy, citing the successful experience of 2020 when tax cuts spurred economic growth. Furthermore, they sharply criticize the government's long-term plan and demand greater transparency regarding state budgets.
04.2025
16 Speeches
The speaker consistently adopts a strong left-wing stance on issues concerning taxation and social policy. They categorically oppose the introduction of a car tax, increases to the land tax, and income tax breaks for high earners, stressing the negative impact these measures would have on families and the economy. Furthermore, the speaker strongly supports subsidies for large families and protecting pensioners from tax hikes, employing emotional rhetoric regarding the government's "deceit" and "lies."
03.2025
1 Speeches
The speaker adopts a clear anti-tax stance, demanding the cancellation of all planned tax hikes, including increases to VAT, income tax, and corporate income tax. They also demand the elimination of the income tax exemption for high earners. The position is categorical and uncompromising: "Let's stop playing games with taxes."
02.2025
22 Speeches
The speaker clearly takes a stand on defending Estonia's energy independence, strongly supporting electricity generation based on oil shale and biomass, while criticizing the government's wind and solar energy policies. He argues that relying solely on renewable energy sources does not guarantee energy security and demands the application of market economy principles in the energy sector. Regarding education policy, he advocates for the preservation of small schools, and in the field of regional policy, he supports maintaining greater decision-making authority for local municipalities.
01.2025
27 Speeches
The speaker consistently adopts a left-wing position on issues of taxation and social policy, strongly supporting the abolition of the motor vehicle tax and criticizing the income tax relief for high earners. He/She expresses clear opposition to the current governing coalition, especially the Reform Party, and demands snap elections. The speaker stresses the importance of regional policy and protecting the interests of rural areas, as well as supporting families and pensioners against tax hikes.
12.2024
32 Speeches
The speaker strongly represents the positions of the Isamaa Party, consistently maintaining an oppositional stance toward the current coalition. Their core arguments focus on fighting against tax hikes, criticizing the security tax—which they label the "tax on the income tax exemption for high earners"—and protecting pensioners and large families. The speaker expresses strong opposition to increases in excise duties, the proposed car tax, and the raising of VAT, emphasizing the negative impact these measures will have on the economy and the most vulnerable groups in society.
11.2024
49 Speeches
The speaker consistently takes a strong opposition stance against the government’s tax hikes, particularly concerning the motor vehicle tax and the income tax exemption for high earners. He repeatedly emphasizes that the Isamaa party will only join a coalition that abolishes the car tax. He sharply criticizes the government’s policy, calling it "giving money to the rich at the expense of the poor," and argues that the tax increases primarily harm the weakest groups in society.
10.2024
46 Speeches
The speaker clearly articulates opposition viewpoints, consistently criticizing the government's economic policy and recent tax hikes. They strongly oppose the income tax exemption for high-earners and the so-called 'security tax,' which they label the "Reform Party election promise tax." They emphasize an alternative approach: cutting taxes to stimulate economic growth, citing the successful measures implemented in 2020.
09.2024
8 Speeches
The speaker strongly advocates for the positions of the Isamaa Party, primarily focusing on opposing the land tax hike and addressing issues related to the regulation of the entrepreneur account. The speaker adopts a clearly adversarial position regarding the government's tax policy, emphasizing the necessity of preserving the tax exemption for residential land and criticizing the undermining of entrepreneurs' planning certainty. The speaker demonstrates a consistent opposition stance toward the government’s decisions.
07.2024
12 Speeches
The speaker, representing the Isamaa Party, consistently takes a stand against the government’s tax policy, specifically regarding the motor vehicle tax, the income tax increase, and changes to the land tax. Strong opposition is directed at the income tax exemption for high earners, which they label the “tax hump.” The necessity of cutting taxes to stimulate economic growth is emphasized, referencing the successful experience during the 2020 crisis.
06.2024
24 Speeches
The speaker, in June 2024, is consistently maintaining a fiercely oppositional stance against the government's proposed tax hikes, particularly the motor vehicle tax and the land tax. They categorically assert that these taxes will damage the economy and drive people into poverty, and demand the immediate withdrawal of the draft bills. Furthermore, the speaker strongly endorses the positions of the Isamaa party and calls on voters to support Isamaa at the polls in order to prevent these tax increases.
05.2024
13 Speeches
The speaker consistently takes a strongly oppositional stance against the government's tax hikes, particularly concerning the proposed increases to income tax for pensioners and land tax. They sharply criticize the government's economic policy and accuse the ruling coalition of lying to voters about the tax increases. While supporting the development of wind energy, the speaker demands a more thorough analysis and opposes plans for the rapid shutdown of oil shale power generation.
04.2024
36 Speeches
The speaker consistently adopts a strong opposition stance against the current government, sharply criticizing tax increases and the breaking of election promises. There is particularly strong opposition to the car tax, the abolition of the income tax exemption for pensioners, and the income tax benefit for high earners. It is emphasized that the previous EKRE-Isamaa-Center Party government was economically more successful, having achieved Europe's fastest economic growth.
03.2024
31 Speeches
In March 2024, the speaker consistently adopted a critical position regarding the government’s energy policy, strongly highlighting Elering’s failures and calling for the consideration of alternatives, such as utilizing pellet dust in the Narva power plants. In the healthcare sector, the speaker supports preventative work and individual accountability. In education, the importance of free higher education is stressed. On the matter of traffic safety, the speaker criticizes the underfunding of roads and supports infrastructure development.
02.2024
11 Speeches
The speaker strongly advocates for opposition viewpoints, criticizing the government's economic policy and procedural irregularities. They are particularly vocal in their opposition to tax hikes (VAT, car tax, the income tax 'hump') and energy policy, stressing the detrimental impact of the government's decisions on the economy. Their positions are distinctly left-leaning on economic matters, supporting entrepreneurship and job creation, but conservative regarding energy policy, specifically defending oil shale energy.
01.2024
24 Speeches
The speaker consistently adopts a critical stance regarding the government's economic policy, particularly concerning tax increases and energy policy. They strongly advocate for maintaining the oil shale energy sector and utilizing biogas, asserting that the government's decisions have resulted in a loss of 2 billion euros. Given their oppositional viewpoint, they sharply criticize the actions of the prime minister and the ministers, accusing them of making detrimental decisions that harm the economy.