By Months: Helir-Valdor Seeder

Total Months: 19

Fully Profiled: 19

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10.2025

13 Speeches

The focus is clearly on the needs of rural areas and sparsely populated settlements, stressing that promoting car ownership is the cheapest option for the state. The speaker criticizes the government's spending on the expensive and inefficient public transport network in these sparsely populated areas.
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09.2025

25 Speeches

Although the focus is on national and international issues, the speaker draws examples from local life, citing the Leie Savings and Loan Association as a positive example. He/She also raises issues concerning the Viljandi local government regarding the organization of Ukrainian language instruction, which is connected to the transition to Estonian-language education.
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06.2025

28 Speeches

The focus is primarily on national and strategic issues (security, tax policy, the state budget). Regional concerns become apparent through criticism directed at local government activities (such as the Viljandi kindergarten fees) and questions surrounding the decision to fund the Tartu basketball hall using revenue from the gambling tax.
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05.2025

17 Speeches

The politician focuses heavily on rural and regional policy, particularly the agricultural sector. He criticizes the structural changes within the ministries and emphasizes the necessity of coordinating European Union rural support under the umbrella of a single ministry. Specifically, he highlights a concern of strategic importance regarding the lack of protection for fertile agricultural land in Estonia.
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04.2025

14 Speeches

The speaker draws attention to the transport problems in sparsely populated areas. Separately, he/she emphasizes the need for cross-border cooperation when planning Latvian wind farms, citing the Viljandimaa/Mulgi municipality and the Lode wind farm as a specific example. Additionally, he/she raises the language and funding issues concerning the Ida-Virumaa Vocational Education Centre.
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03.2025

12 Speeches

The speaker is focusing on the nation's internal administrative structure, vehemently opposing the Social Democrats' initiatives concerning the division of Estonia into four "oblasts" and the restructuring of county public transport centers into vague regional hubs.
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02.2025

36 Speeches

A strong focus is placed on rural areas and regional inequality, criticizing the relocation of state institutions (e.g., Põlva) and the anti-rural impact of the proposed car tax. It highlights specific regional issues, such as the cross-border wind farm in Mulgi Parish and the school network reform in Viljandi County. The text advocates for using the existing 15 counties as the optimal unit for regional administration, opposing the creation of new, "mystical" regions.
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01.2025

13 Speeches

Strong emphasis is placed on regional policy, opposing the creation of artificial regions that conflict with the structure of historical counties and local municipalities. It is noted that the government's tax policy (the car tax) hits regional families particularly hard, as they find it more difficult to cope without their own transport.
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12.2024

53 Speeches

The speaker addresses issues of regional policy, criticizing the regional minister's plan to create four new "oblasts" as illogical and centralizing foolishness. Specific areas are mentioned (Viljandi Adult Gymnasium, Paide football hall), and the role of local governments (including development centers) is emphasized.
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11.2024

89 Speeches

Regionally, he/she focuses on the logic of administrative division, advocating for the preservation of counties as the optimal level of regional governance. He/she criticizes the creation of artificial regional areas that do not align with local identity, county borders, or attraction centers, calling this a lack of "rational logic." In the context of security, Narva and Ida-Virumaa are mentioned repeatedly, referencing the autonomy aspirations of the 1990s.
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10.2024

31 Speeches

The speaker's focus is predominantly on national and security policy issues, such as citizenship, internal security, and the structure of ministries. Specific regional or local topics are absent, although the issues concerning public transport subsidies and the Land and Spatial Planning Agency have an indirect regional impact.
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09.2024

24 Speeches

The text focuses on issues of regional development and local self-government, highlighting the city of Paide as an example of the unfair redistribution of the revenue base. It emphasizes the need for stable state funding for regional cultural diversity (Seto, Võro, Mulgi), contrasting permanent state institutions with project-based institutes. Furthermore, it criticizes the unrealistic nature of the public transport reform and supports increased car usage (motorization) in rural areas.
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07.2024

30 Speeches

A strong regional focus, highlighting the plight of residents in rural and sparsely populated areas and the disruption of regional balance. Criticism is directed at the negative impact of the car tax on rural residents, for whom a vehicle is absolutely essential, as well as the reduction of the public transport network. The government's policy is being dubbed "perverse regional policy."
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06.2024

36 Speeches

A strong regional focus, emphasizing the negative impact of tax hikes (especially the car tax) on residents of rural areas, for whom a car is an essential means of subsistence. It criticizes the amendments to the Land Tax Act, calling them "regional policy turned upside down" because they increase, rather than level out, the disparity in local government revenues.
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05.2024

54 Speeches

The focus is primarily on national and security policy issues linked to the international context (the war in Ukraine, EU directives). Regarding regional policy, he criticizes the amendments to the Land Tax Act, which, in his estimation, increase inequality between the municipalities surrounding Tallinn and those further afield. He also mentions the historical experience of Mulgimaa in the context of denunciation.
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04.2024

29 Speeches

The focus is primarily national (security, demography, election laws). It mentions the context of negotiations in the Tallinn City Council regarding the voting rights of third-country nationals. It also refers to the need for cars among large families, especially outside major cities, in connection with the proposed car tax.
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03.2024

9 Speeches

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02.2024

22 Speeches

A strong regional focus on opposing the car tax, emphasizing its negative impact on sparsely populated areas and rural residents, for whom a car is an essential means of transportation. It also raises integration problems in Ida-Virumaa related to earlier immigration.
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01.2024

5 Speeches

The focus is predominantly national, addressing the central government budget, education reform, and security issues. The regional aspect concerns support for maintaining rural schools and the burden placed on local governments by the welfare reform, but these issues are subordinated to the broader national themes.
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