Rush with the Administrative Reform

The fact that the Administrative Reform was written in the Gender Equality Bill leaves room to doubt whether Riigikogu tried to pass it in a hurry with the second reading, instead of letting it settle and be debated over before the third reading of the bills. Also to digest through and pass a bill separately would have taken longer time, than passing it just as an additional extension to the Gender Equality Bill.

Kaido Matson

President vetoed Riigikogu's decision

Yesterday, Estonian President vetoed the Riigikogu's decision that Tallinn's administrative reform could not be done before the elections. So all parts of Tallinn will be united. Soon we will see if it will do good or bad to our city. 

Truth Revealed!

According to Postimees, the representative of Keskerakond in Riigikogu, Ain Seppik finally admitted what a lot of people had thought before: The main aim of the administrative reform was to ensure their power in Tallinn. The aim was never to help Tallinn, increase the profit, just the party's welfare. 

Pros and Cons of Administrative Reform

*Pros

It will increase Tallinn's profit 6% per year

More efficient management of the town

Less bureaucracy

*Cons

Problems of different parts of Tallinn are very different and they can not be taken as one, for example Lasnamäe does not share same problems as Nõmme

The maintenance of smaller streets and the yards of story buildings will probably left without attention

People can not elect politicians who they want to represent and run their part of the city

We also hope some readers feedback: Are you for or against uniting Tallinn?

Polemics have settled down for now

The discussions, whether Tallinn should loose all its parts or not, has finally settle down. But not for long, although Tallinn's city council took on the proposal to unite all parts of Tallinn, ten minutes later Riigikogu took on the proposal that forbid to unite parts of Tallinn. For the excuse they brought that this could not be done this year, due to the fact that municipal elections are taking place soon. This would exclude the possibility that this is done only to guarantee Keskerakond's success in the upcoming elections. Keskerakond did not agree with this kind of decision and decided to sue Riigikogu, because they think that only Tallinn's City council has the right to decide over these things. 

In our opinion Riigikogu did the right thing. Because if they still decide to take on the proposal next year, it is done for the right reasons, to improve Tallinn, not for Keskerakond's own welfare.