Session Profile: Aleksandr Tšaplõgin
The 15th Riigikogu, 6th Session, Plenary Sitting
2025-11-03
Political Position
The political focus is heavily directed towards social welfare, supporting a significant increase in pensions and subsistence benefits to ensure a dignified life. This stance is value-based, prioritizing support for the elderly and the poor over the funding of bureaucracy, the green transition, and the LGBT agenda. The objective is to reorient state budget priorities toward social security, even if it necessitates cutting expenditures in other sectors.
3 Speeches Analyzed
Topic Expertise
The speaker demonstrates expertise regarding figures in the social sector, citing specific costs (33 million euros for pension supplements) and the size of target groups (330,000 pensioners). Specific proposals for budget restructuring were also presented, highlighting the reduction in the number of civil servants and criticism of green transition expenditures as potential sources of savings.
3 Speeches Analyzed
Rhetorical Style
The rhetorical style is combative and insistent, utilizing strong emotional appeals regarding poverty and hunger, and sharp moral contrasts (an extra piece of meat on a pensioner's table versus the good life enjoyed by activists). The speaker issues direct challenges to opponents (to try living on 200 euros themselves) and employs simplified, yet impactful language to frame budgetary choices as a moral dilemma.
3 Speeches Analyzed
Activity Patterns
The data indicates active participation in the plenary session on November 3, 2025, where two substantive socio-political speeches were delivered and a critical question was answered. The speaker is therefore active in the debates of the Riigikogu plenary sessions, focusing on specific draft legislation.
3 Speeches Analyzed
Opposition Stance
The opposition is intense and aimed both at government policy (the growth of bureaucracy, the pointless "green transition") and at specific political parties (the Social Democrats) for their prior inaction while in government. Criticism is also leveled at the spending of taxpayer money on LGBT activists and "green" businessmen, contrasting this expenditure with the needs of the elderly.
3 Speeches Analyzed
Collaboration Style
The style of cooperation in the social sector is pragmatic, supporting proposals from other factions (e.g., the Social Democrats) to raise the subsistence benefit, even while criticizing their previous inaction. This cooperation is conditional and focused on achieving specific social objectives, irrespective of political disagreements.
3 Speeches Analyzed
Regional Focus
The focus is exclusively on the national level, dealing with nationwide social benefits (pensions, subsistence allowance) and state budget priorities. There are no references to specific regional or local issues.
3 Speeches Analyzed
Economic Views
Economic views advocate for strong redistribution into the social sector, demanding fiscal discipline through cutting costs associated with bureaucracy and the green transition. The goal is to ensure a social minimum and a dignified life, rather than primarily emphasizing economic growth or new tax increases.
3 Speeches Analyzed
Social Issues
In the social sector, the priority is the fight against poverty and hunger through raising subsistence benefits and pensions, stressing that no one in a European country should go hungry. At the same time, strong opposition is voiced against spending taxpayer money to promote the 'rainbow agenda,' deeming it an immoral priority.
3 Speeches Analyzed
Legislative Focus
The legislative focus is centered on initiating and supporting social measures, specifically the implementation of an additional payment of 100 euros for pensions and the raising of the subsistence benefit threshold to 300 euros. The speaker views these draft laws as the initial step toward aligning social benefits with the actual cost of living.
3 Speeches Analyzed