By Months: Urmas Reinsalu
Total Months: 19
Fully Profiled: 19
10.2025
22 Speeches
The speaker highlights the protest and appeal made by people with special needs (the Chamber of Disabled People), criticizing the government for failing to consider them when drafting the concept for car tax exemptions. This demonstrates a focus on protecting socially vulnerable groups.
09.2025
85 Speeches
The speaker strongly defends civil liberties and privacy, fiercely opposing the "superdatabase" law and the initiative to regulate "thought crimes," seeing them as a threat leading to the emergence of a surveillance state. He also criticizes the government's family policy during the demographic crisis (citing negative measures and a lack of priority) and the incompetence in healthcare management (specifically mentioning treatment queues and the deficit of the Health Insurance Fund).
06.2025
75 Speeches
It focuses on protecting vulnerable groups in social matters (families with children, pensioners, disabled people) from the negative impact of tax increases, citing the decline in real incomes. It sharply raises internal security issues related to the Swedish prisoner rental agreement, pointing to the risk of immigrant crime and the absence of necessary analyses. It strongly defends the fundamental rights and privacy of individuals against state data mining initiatives (super database, license plate recognition cameras), calling them a dangerous step into the unknown.
05.2025
63 Speeches
Social issues are not the focus. The only mention is the criticism of the car tax regarding the freedom of movement for lower-income people, ridiculing the government's stance that poorer people should cycle more to compensate for the car tax, given the construction of new bike paths.
04.2025
43 Speeches
The focus of social issues is the well-being of the elderly, who are particularly hard hit by tax hikes and inflation, as well as the birth rate crisis. He/She criticizes the government for systematically destroying families' sense of security and ignoring the demographic problem. The taxation of cars is also viewed as a forced choice and a restriction of freedom.
03.2025
61 Speeches
On social issues, the speaker focuses on security and the constitutional order. He supports restricting the voting rights of citizens from third countries and severing the influence associated with the Moscow Patriarchate. He criticizes the Minister of Economic Affairs for addressing gender equality issues at the expense of economic matters.
02.2025
26 Speeches
The speaker focuses on the socio-economic situation of the elderly, criticizing government policies that have reduced the net pension and purchasing power of thousands of pensioners. The reduction of the Russian Federation's influence is also addressed as a security-related social issue, which involves supporting the restriction of voting rights in local elections and eliminating the legal influence of the Moscow Patriarchate in Estonia.
01.2025
58 Speeches
Attention is focused on the demographic crisis and supporting large families, criticizing government decisions that have damaged families' sense of security (such as the elimination of the income tax exemption). A strong security-based stance is taken in favor of revoking the voting rights of non-citizens, citing Russia’s strategic interest and the necessity of freeing the parliament from a hostage crisis.
12.2024
78 Speeches
The focus is on socio-economic well-being, especially the situation of families with children and the elderly. He/She sharply criticizes the abolition of the tax exemption for children and the plans to make family benefits selective, accusing the government of ignoring the demographic crisis. He/She calls the approval of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child protocol "a pathetic fig leaf," since the government's practical steps are worsening the ability of families to cope.
11.2024
100 Speeches
The social focus is on the deterioration of quality of life and purchasing power, especially among families with children and the elderly, who are disproportionately affected by tax hikes. It opposes the taxation of homeowners (land tax), viewing this as a breach of the property reform promises and forcing people into impossible choices. It criticizes the government’s actions concerning the demographic crisis and the zeroing out of funding for elderly organizations as retaliation for their protests.
10.2024
57 Speeches
The social sector focuses on demography, opposing the reduction of family benefits (specifically, the ceiling on parental compensation), arguing that such cuts exacerbate the demographic catastrophe and increase family insecurity. Regarding security-related social policy, there is a demand to terminate the voting rights of citizens of the Russian Federation in local elections, deeming this essential for national security.
09.2024
27 Speeches
Social issues have been addressed within the context of economic well-being, emphasizing the negative impact of tax hikes on people's purchasing power and quality of life. He/She warns that due to these tax increases, the average wage earner will effectively lose one month's salary next year, and thousands of people will lose their jobs. Other traditional social issues are not covered.
07.2024
23 Speeches
The text emphasizes the demographic crisis and criticizes the ruling coalition’s threats to make family benefits more selective. It defends the financial security of the elderly, ridiculing the decision to raise disability benefits by mere cents as a supposed measure to mitigate the impact of the car tax. Furthermore, it raises critical security and values questions concerning Infrastructure Minister Svet’s statements on Crimea, and criticizes the government’s lack of courage in deciding to strip citizens of the aggressor state of their voting rights.
06.2024
40 Speeches
It emphasizes the protection of civil liberties and property rights, arguing that the car tax restricts people's freedom of movement and worsens their financial situation. It expresses strong opposition to the plan to create a super database of all bank accounts, calling it a "Red China-style personal state" and anti-freedom.
05.2024
63 Speeches
The speaker supports decisive steps to reduce Russia's influence, including resolving the issue of the Moscow Patriarchate and suspending the voting rights of citizens of the aggressor state. In the field of education, he/she criticizes the government's failure to resolve the teachers' salary crisis and the ongoing strike. Furthermore, the speaker opposes lowering the voting age to 16, considering it populist and hypocritical, especially given the simultaneous imposition of "nanny state" restrictions on young people.
04.2024
11 Speeches
Not enough data.
03.2024
10 Speeches
Focuses on family policy, accusing the government of eroding families' sense of security, which is reflected in low birth rates. It criticizes the coalition agreement for the lack of positive, substantive family policy and casts doubt on the analysis concerning the "more targeted" adjustment of family benefits.
02.2024
33 Speeches
Regarding social issues, the speaker focuses on the impact of economic policy on people's livelihoods and freedom of movement, particularly in the context of families with children. In the foreign policy context, he/she emphasizes Russia's crime of genocide concerning the deportation of Ukrainian children.
01.2024
5 Speeches
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