By Years: Vladimir Arhipov

The speaker clearly represents opposition viewpoints, consistently criticizing the government’s tax policy and social decisions. They strongly support maintaining oil shale energy to ensure energy security and oppose the law on churches and congregations due to its restriction of religious freedom. They emphasize the need to increase subsistence benefits and improve the situation of pensioners, prioritizing social justice over the state’s security expenditures.

The speaker clearly represents an opposition viewpoint, consistently criticizing the government's tax policy and budget cuts. They strongly oppose tax increases, especially hikes to excise duties and VAT, and demand the restoration of permanent operating cost support for pensioners' associations. The speaker supports a more flexible implementation of the Estonian-language education reform and expresses concern regarding the situation of vulnerable groups (pensioners, large families). This opposition is consistent and principled, focusing on matters of social justice and regional balance.