Martin Helme: “Public debate in Estonia no longer centers the Estonian Cause; rather, it is something people are ashamed of.”

I continue to urge people to support Estonia's only official presidential candidate, Mart Helme," he concluded.

The chancellor of justice is playing a game in which she acts as though she is not a candidate, thereby avoiding the debate and heightened media and public scrutiny that should be a matter of course for someone seeking high office.

Support for the coalition parties has for some time been languishing at around a dozen percent, which is unprecedented in Estonia's history and abnormal in a democratic system.

The state is about more than just a balanced budget. One issue is the birth rate. If we cannot increase the number of births, then everything else we do, including pursuing a balanced budget, is pointless.