{"id":24792,"date":"2023-12-14T09:02:59","date_gmt":"2023-12-14T07:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rito.riigikogu.ee\/en\/?p=24792"},"modified":"2023-12-14T09:02:59","modified_gmt":"2023-12-14T07:02:59","slug":"state-reform-is-serving-the-future-of-statehood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rito.riigikogu.ee\/en\/previous-issues\/no-48\/state-reform-is-serving-the-future-of-statehood\/","title":{"rendered":"State Reform Is Serving the Future of Statehood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Summaryvahepealkirileading16\">\n<p class=\"TextSwifttaandetaINGLISE lead\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">The Constitution has served Estonia well, there has been no constitutional crisis. However, a parliamentary crisis is obvious in 2023. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"TextSwifttaandetaINGLISE\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">The Estonian state reform in the current meaning of the term has been spoken about since 25\u00a0November 2009. In 2018, 27 entrepreneurs founded the Foundation for State Reform that prepared a concise concept for state reform together with specific proposals. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"TextSwiftINGLISE\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: -.25pt;\">In order to solve the crisis of parliamentarianism, the Riigikogu Rules of Procedure and Internal Rules Act should set out precise parameters for limiting obstruction, while at the same time giving the opposition the right to apply to the Supreme Court for review of the constitutionality of Acts that have been passed but have not entered into force. In order to reduce administrative burden and bureaucracy, it is recommended to follow the successful experience of the Netherlands. In the longer perspective, a system of two public hearings should be introduced for ministerial candidates to improve the quality of governance \u2013 one hearing in a committee of the Riigikogu and the other before the plenary of the Riigikogu. In order to improve the exercise of power by the people, it would be expedient to repeal Article\u00a0105(4) of the Constitution, which would give the Riigikogu the opportunity to better organise referendums.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Constitution has served Estonia well, there has been no constitutional crisis. However, a parliamentary crisis is obvious in 2023. The Estonian state reform in the current meaning of the term has been spoken about since 25\u00a0November 2009. In 2018, 27 entrepreneurs founded the Foundation for State Reform that prepared a concise concept for state [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[169],"class_list":["post-24792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-no-48","topic-focus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rito.riigikogu.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rito.riigikogu.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rito.riigikogu.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rito.riigikogu.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rito.riigikogu.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24792"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rito.riigikogu.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24793,"href":"https:\/\/rito.riigikogu.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24792\/revisions\/24793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rito.riigikogu.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rito.riigikogu.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}