ISSN: 2560-1601 Vol. 17, No. 3 (EE) April 2019 Estonia social briefing: A society in reflecting mood: after elections, before elections E-MAP Foundation MTÜ 1052 Budapest Petőfi Sándor utca 11. +36 1 5858 690 Kiadó: Kína-KKE Intézet Nonprofit Kft.
[email protected] Szerkesztésért felelős személy: Chen Xin Kiadásért felelős személy: Huang Ping china-cee.eu 2017/01 A society in reflecting mood: after elections, before elections Currently, the Estonian society is reflecting on what has been done in the post- parliamentary elections period – this is all to do with the extensively discussed Government- forming politico-institutional saga – to face the European Parliament elections scheduled for the end of May 2019. The societal reflections are detected to be of the widest possible range: pure politics-driven, political economy-based, culture promoting, and even of nostalgically linguistic nature. Nevertheless, in all cases, the vast majority of people who represent the Estonian Republic’s multi-faceted society are showing by how much they are in positive contrast with the country’s immature political elites. The All Estonia Initiative In March 2019, a group of enthusiasts launched a social media-promoted initiative The All Estonia or Kõigi Eesti. The initiative’s logo, which had a stylised heart as well a basic greeting in Estonian, Russian and English languages (see Picture 1),1 was arguably a direct response of some of the segments of the Estonian society on the post-elections shake-up generated by the governmental coalition-building process. Picture 1: The Kõigi Eesti logo Source: ERR News Giving his commentary in an Aktuaalne kaamera reportage, Rein Veidemann, Professor Emeritus from the Tallinn University’s School of Humanities, noted that the Kõigi Eesti 1 ‘Kõigi Eesti movement launched by concerned residents’ in ERR.