By Months: Tõnis Lukas
Total Months: 19
Fully Profiled: 19
10.2025
1 Speeches
The primary social issue concerns education, teachers' remuneration, and the career model. The speaker strongly supports raising teachers' salaries and establishing a new career model to ensure the quality of the education system and teacher satisfaction.
09.2025
10 Speeches
The main social theme is the protection of the Estonian language and culture, which is viewed as a matter of Estonian dignity and a constitutional right. The issue of integration is also addressed, with emphasis placed on the fact that the lack of language use in employment reduces the learning motivation of immigrant families and reinforces the idea that one can get by here using Russian.
06.2025
47 Speeches
The speaker is heavily focused on the preservation of the Estonian language and culture, calling for stricter enforcement of language requirements in the service industry and academia. Concern is voiced over uncontrolled immigration and the resulting social and security risks (clan societies, the Tartu prison case), stressing the need for language training and integration among adult immigrants.
05.2025
11 Speeches
The speaker's primary social priority is the protection of the Estonian language and cultural space, stressing that the transition to Estonian-language instruction is a societal good, not merely an individual opportunity. They are concerned about the lack of integration, citing 80,000 employees who do not meet the required language standards. Furthermore, they warn against the use of artificial intelligence, which could dismantle the fundamental tenets of society.
04.2025
4 Speeches
Focuses on the role of culture, education, and sport in shaping the nation and ensuring social cohesion. It highlights the social divide created by the inaccessibility of cultural events due to ticket prices, emphasizing the need for state support. It deems the recognition of civic associations and the bearers of the national spirit essential.
03.2025
20 Speeches
The primary focus of social policy is the status of the Estonian language and culture, alongside demography, emphasizing the need to halt the emigration of Estonians. It advocates for supporting extracurricular education for large families and calls for ensuring the safety and security of children with special educational needs (SEN). Furthermore, it demands stricter language requirements within the service sector (taxi drivers, couriers) and criticizes the deficiencies of the proposed Language Act.
02.2025
16 Speeches
It focuses on social issues related to security, supporting the restriction of suffrage in local elections to ensure loyalty and prevent a state takeover. In the field of education, it defends schools for children with special educational needs, emphasizing the necessity of retaining specialists and student boarding facilities, and warning against the "fanatical implementation" of inclusive education.
01.2025
5 Speeches
Socio-politically, the speaker focuses on supporting large families and ensuring the sustainability of the population, emphasizing the importance of starting a family and having children as a form of self-realization. He/She condemns negative campaigns that seek to exclude the words "mother," "father," "family," and "marriage" from the curriculum. Furthermore, the speaker is critical of the merging of schools for children with special educational needs and is skeptical regarding immigration policy, expressing fear of an influx of economic migrants.
12.2024
10 Speeches
The speaker is focused on the quality of education and supports raising the age of compulsory schooling. They strongly advocate for kindergarten directors to have the right to group children based on their Estonian language proficiency level. This, they argue, is necessary to prevent methodological compromise and ensure the child's proper development. They consider the opposing stance to be discriminatory towards Estonians.
11.2024
26 Speeches
It focuses on the accessibility of education in rural areas and valuing teachers' salaries. It supports revoking the voting rights of citizens of the aggressor state and stateless persons due to security concerns, arguing that they could be covert Russian citizens. It seeks clarification on the scope of the bill to end state funding for abortion, specifically asking whether abortions performed due to health risks will continue to be funded.
10.2024
12 Speeches
The speaker is strongly anti-immigration, stressing that the mass importation of labor, coupled with rapid enfranchisement and weak language requirements, overwhelms the Estonian nation and creates a social and security burden. He supports family values, questioning whether a person raising a child should be treated equally to a childless person regarding future state services. He also raises internal security issues (prison capacity, Putinists).
09.2024
9 Speeches
The main social issues are the quality of education, the fair treatment of students and families in the event of state errors, and the protection of the rights of the Estonian language. Furthermore, emphasis is placed on valuing historical memory, specifically by questioning the appreciation of the memory of the 1944 freedom fighters.
07.2024
13 Speeches
Key social issues include education policy, teacher salaries, and the strictness of Estonian language requirements, with the speaker expressing hope that these language requirements will not be eased. Concern is voiced regarding the reduction of support for large families and the increase in their tax burden. Furthermore, the creation of a victim mentality is criticized, and the necessity of serving the Estonian people and Estonian identity is emphasized.
06.2024
5 Speeches
The most crucial social issue is the establishment of an Estonian-language education system and the strengthening of the role of the Estonian language in society, requiring adequate assessment of children's language proficiency upon admission to school and kindergarten. He/She expresses concern regarding the steps initiated by European Union institutions aimed at creating a surveillance society.
05.2024
23 Speeches
It focuses on immigration, viewing mass immigration as spiraling out of control and a security threat if Estonian language proficiency is not mandated. He/She emphasizes the dominance of the Estonian language in the public sphere to prevent the formation of "foreign-language slums" and the influence of foreign states. Furthermore, he/she considers the role of early childhood education crucial for ensuring the continuity of national culture and traditions (the Song and Dance Festival) through professional music instruction.
04.2024
23 Speeches
The central social theme is Estonian-language education and integration, demanding a full transition and criticizing the increased resistance from the Russian-speaking population. Furthermore, the interests of large families are defended by demanding the restoration of the hobby education allowance that the government had previously withdrawn. Immigration is addressed as a security and social cohesion issue, with warnings issued about the negative consequences of mass immigration.
03.2024
19 Speeches
The most crucial social issues are education and language policy. He/She defends the status of the Estonian language in the public sphere, connecting its potential decline to economic migration and warning against the formation of isolated minorities. Regarding education, he/she emphasizes maintaining a supply of qualified teachers and upholding the principle of the comprehensive school system. He/She also supports improving the social guarantees available to creative professionals.
02.2024
13 Speeches
Immigration dominates social topics, which is addressed from the perspective of security and cultural preservation. Emphasis is placed on the need to protect the Estonian-language information space and culture, and a warning is issued that uncontrolled immigration will lead to social and educational problems (citing the decline in Finland's PISA results). There is a demand to revoke the voting rights of citizens of aggressor states in local elections.
01.2024
17 Speeches
Education is a primary social issue, stressing the need for a unified Estonian-language education standard to preserve statehood and prevent the establishment of "other states." Improving teachers' salaries and working conditions is viewed as a key factor for social stability and the quality of education. It is emphasized that living in rural areas is expensive for teachers, and their salaries must be comparable to those of other teachers across Estonia.