[5] In an article published in Lääne Elu in March 2014, RÜE regional manager Anita Keivabu claimed that the new party is being advertised in county newspapers with European Parliament funding.

RÜE did not respond to Reemann's and Termonen's accusations, only commenting that both men left without explaining their motives to the general assembly and the board.

[31] According to Tõnis Saarts, based on the program, RÜE can be considered an anti-Russian socio-economically right-wing political party on the border between conservatism and liberalism.

She attributes that to RÜE promoting French-style civic nationalism, unlike EKRE which appeals to ethnic Estonians.

In this peculiar way, Viljar Veebel believes that Ojuland and RÜE have helped integrate the Estonian and Russian-speaking communities.

[32] According to Veebel, RÜE has publicly approved the developments in Poland and Hungary and has used the same agenda that brought radical and anti-democratic forces to power there.

[32] As the reason for the creation of RÜE, Ojuland stated that Estonia must be repaired and the decisions made in the Riigikogu must be people-centered.

[27] Before the 2015 election, the RÜE pushed for reducing public sector costs and carrying out a comprehensive reform of state and local government.

RÜE also considered it important to prevent the "flight" of Estonian taxpayers' money in hundreds of millions of euros through so-called foreign banks.

[33] In April 2016, RÜE proposed to ban the observance and promotion of the teachings of the Quran in public places in Estonia in any form.

"We have decided to start collecting information from the public about cases of harassment and abuse which the mainstream media would be silent about," said the initiator of the proposal, RÜE Pärnumaa district head Triin Raidmets.