Postimees Digest, Monday, April 8

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People's Assembly formulates proposals.

The discussion meeting of the People's Assembly initiative that took place on Saturday and brought together 315 people of the 500 invited concentrated on proposals to boost public involvement in legislative drafting, introduce changes in party financing, reduce politicization, boost competition between parties and give the voter more say.

More popular proposals included a legal obligation for the parliament to discuss civil initiative proposals provided a certain number of signatures has been gathered, introduce criminal penalties for illegal donations to political parties, make it easier for independent candidates to get elected, introduce an obligation to participate in the work of a representative body after being elected as a member and introduce legal regulation of public notification and people's rights to participate in various stages of legal drafting and proceedings.

MPs said that the significance of the People's Assembly goes beyond concrete proposals and vowed to take the latter under serious consideration. President Toomas Hendrik Ilves is set to present the final package of proposals to the Riigikogu on Tuesday.

Editorial: teamwork fruit

People’s Assembly (Rahvakogu), assembling in Song Festival Square facilities on Saturday, might be called a test of universal stupidity. The test results proved negative: no stupidity discovered. Fears of short-sighted and demagogical decisions proved unfounded.

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