The Isamaa Party s board agreed on Tuesday to make a proposal to postpone the election of the board arguing the general assembly cannot be held this year due to the pandemic. We have to take into consideration that in the current situation, it is not possible to organize the general assembly. This is why the board will make a proposal to the party s council to extends the mandate of the board for another year, the party s communication manager Karl Sander Kase said. It is not possible to make long-term plans for big events, but we re hoping the situation will get improve and we ll find a suitable time for the elections of the chairman and board, Kase said.
While the Reform Party s intention of limiting freedom of speech might be aimed at reducing social conflict, it entails too many dangers. Every public and private conversation will be given a much more rigid frame, Cornelia Kangur and Karl Sander Kase write.
In December of 2015, several well-known singers sang the following lines on Eesti Televisioon (ETV): Only nature knows, as does the fatherland (possible reference to the Isamaa party – ed.) that a nigger belongs in Africa. We can tolerate them far away over there along with all other species of animal.
Had Estonia the kind of hate speech legislation the Reform Party is now looking to introduce back in 2015, news coverage might have read something along the lines of:
Two more members of the Isamaa Party have tested positive for the coronavirus, in addition to the four diagnosed on Monday. Another three advisers have also fallen ill, according to party spokesperson Karl-Sander Kase.
ERR News wrote on Monday that four members of the Isamaa Party s Riigikogu faction tested positive for the novel coronavirus, leading to the Riigikogu to move to remote working for the week. ERR was told the outbreak affects Isamaa, the Social Democrats (SDE) and EKRE but not the Reform or Center parties, who are currently in negotiations to form a new government.
Karl-Sander Kase noted on Tuesday that six Isamaa MPs tested negative for COVID-19 on Monday.