By Years: Helir-Valdor Seeder

The most crucial social issue is population policy and birth rates, which is framed as a matter of national survival. It opposes the reduction of family benefits and other cuts affecting families. Regarding education policy, it supports the transition to Estonian-language education and proposes increasing the language proficiency requirement for naturalization applicants seeking citizenship from B1 to B2, stressing the importance of a shared information space and language competence.

The speaker’s priority is internal security and the sustainability of the nation-state. He/She strongly urges the revocation of local government voting rights for citizens of Russia and Belarus, as well as stateless persons, viewing this as both a security threat and a way to boost motivation for integration. He/She opposes uncontrolled immigration and criticizes the government for cutting family benefits and taxing pensions, seeing these measures as an attack on large families and pensioners.