Isamaa vows to abolish Climate Ministry and create scandal inquiry panel

Estonia’s Isamaa party has pledged to close the Climate Ministry and establish a commission to investigate scandals if it wins power after the 2027 parliamentary elections, ERR reported. Party chairman Urmas Reinsalu said at a party council meeting in Tallinn that the election campaign had begun and was intensifying.

Isamaa also plans to let citizens initiate early elections, following what Reinsalu described as the Latvian model. The proposed post-election inquiry commission would make it a crime to lie before the panel.

Reinsalu accused the Reform Party and the Social Democrats of trying to avoid political responsibility for their roles in governments led by Kaja Kallas and Kristen Michal. He also claimed that Estonia 200 was being pressured to withdraw from the election, which he said would benefit the Reform Party and the Social Democrats.

The party’s other proposals include closing Estonia’s border with Russia, adopting a negative supplementary budget and reviewing foundations and subsidies. Isamaa said it would cancel the car tax and reduce value-added tax on staple foods to 13% from July 1, 2027. The listed foods are meat, fish, milk, fruit, vegetables and bread.

Isamaa also pledged to repeal the Climate Act, restore investment certainty and protect businesses from what it called harassment. Its energy policy would ensure dispatchable power capacity, use domestic resources including oil shale, and maintain affordable prices. The party said it would halt measures that make oil-shale energy unusable.

Other commitments include developing artificial intelligence to increase productivity and exports, protecting fundamental freedoms, easing the burden of raising children on families, safeguarding teachers’ incomes, taking a conservative approach to migration and restoring regional balance. The party also promised to strengthen the use of Estonian in public spaces.