Annual LGBTI report: Estonia’s legislation stagnated, hate speech on a rise
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In its annual review of the human rights situation of LGBTI people in Europe and Central Asia, ILGA-Europe, an advocacy group, listed Estonia with the countries that have seen a rise in hate speech and where same-sex partnership registration or marriage rights legislation has stagnated.
The tenth edition of ILGA-Europe’s annual review of the human rights situation of lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and intersex people in Europe and Central Asia documents progress and trends in the past year.
The review reports a stark rise in abuse and hate speech against LGBTI people in many countries, but it highlights positively that more people are turning to the courts for the recognition of their human rights – or for the clarification of existing legislation that is meant to protect them.
Kalle Klandorf (Center) will continue in office as deputy mayor of Tallinn, after a no-confidence motion filed by the opposition parties at the city council failed to get a sufficient number of votes at Tuesday s off-scheduled sitting.
The no-confidence motion, which followed a recent incident where Klandorf told an older woman with walking difficulties who was struggling to get by along a snow-covered Tallinn street to take a cab instead, was rejected on the 79-seat chamber by a vote of 32 in favor. At least 40 votes were required for the motion to pass.
Chairman of the council, Tiit Terik, said that while the discussion initiated by the opposition parties highlighted shortcomings in the country-wide regulation concerning the clearing of the streets of snow, replacing the deputy mayor would not resolve these problems.
The chairman of the city council of Tallinn Tiit Terik has called an emergency meeting of the council for Tuesday, February 16, to discuss the motion of no-confidence in Deputy Mayor Kalle Klandorf.
The meeting will start at 9 a.m. and the motion of no confidence is the sole item on the meeting s agenda.
The Tallinn city council groups of the Social Democratic Party (SDE), Estonian Conservative People s Party (EKRE), Isamaa and Reform Party handed in the no-confidence motion against Klandorf on Thursday.
The deputy mayor from the Center Party came under criticism after suggesting that an elderly resident using a walking frame and struggling to move along a street that had not been cleared of snow take a taxi instead.
Estonia has a serial criminal party in the government – again
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When the previous Estonian prime minister, Jüri Ratas – also the chairman of the centre-left Centre Party – resigned on 14 January, he did so because his party had yet again been suspected in criminal involvement in a corruption case; this wasn’t by far the first time the Centre Party – now again in the current government – has been suspected, and also prosecuted and found guilty, in corrupt deeds.
On 12 January, the Estonian Public Prosecutor’s Office announced it suspected the Centre Party and five individuals, including the party’s secretary-general, Mihhail Korb, were involved in a corruption case.
City council opposition to express no confidence in Tallinn Deputy Mayor Kalle Klandorf 2021-02-03 BNS/TBT Staff
TALLINN – The Tallinn city council groups of the Social Democratic Party (SDE), Estonian Conservative People s Party (EKRE), Isamaa and Reform Party will initiate a no-confidence motion against Center Party member and Tallinn Deputy Mayor Kalle Klandorf, who suggested that an elderly resident using a walking frame and struggling to move along a city street that had not been cleared of snow take a taxi instead.
On Tuesday evening, the Reporter news program of the Kanal 2 television channel showed a segment about an elderly woman, who on her way to a doctor s appointment at the eye clinic of the East-Tallinn Central Hospital was unable to walk along a city center street that had not been cleared of snow and had therefore ended up in a difficult situation, it is said in the joint statement issued by the chairs of the four city council groups.