About the project

What Poliitiline sobivus is, who is behind it, how the content is produced and how it is funded.

What Poliitiline sobivus is

Poliitiline sobivus (“political match”) is a test that compares your answers to 38 statements about Estonian politics with the documented positions of the parties that hold seats in the Riigikogu (Estonia’s parliament) or are polling above the 5% electoral threshold, ahead of the Riigikogu elections on 7 March 2027. It calculates how closely you match each of them and places you on a two-axis political compass. It is free, requires no registration and is available in Estonian, Russian and English.

It belongs to a family of tools known as voting advice applications, which exist in several European countries. It is not an official website or an opinion poll, it does not forecast election results and it does not recommend who to vote for: it measures the distance between your views and a set of election platforms, and that is where its role ends.

Around the test there is a body of public documentation: each party’s profile with its position on every question, topic pages, aggregated data from the people who have taken the test, and signed analyses explaining what can be read from that data.

Who is behind it

It is a personal, independent project developed from Spain by Fadrique Garcia Font, who is responsible for its development, for maintaining the database of positions and for the published texts. There is no publishing company, party, government, foundation or interest group behind it, and it has no connection with the Estonian electoral administration.

Full identification details, including the address for legal purposes, are given in the legal notice. For any question or correction there is a contact page explaining what information we need in order to review a position.

How the content is produced

Party positions are assigned on the basis of each party’s documented stance: its election manifestos (the 2027 ones once they are adopted, expected in January 2027; until then, those from 2023), its votes in the Riigikogu and its public statements. Each position comes with a justification and, where we have found the specific document, a link to its source. Positions without an explicit document stating them are marked as estimated: we would rather say so than claim a precision we do not have.

Party descriptions, topic introductions and the topic-by-topic readings are written from those positions and checked against the database before publication. They do not include outside data without a source to back it up.

The analyses draw on three materials: the matrix of positions, the aggregated response data and the calculation algorithm itself, plus official sources when they deal with laws or procedures. They carry a publication date, a review date, the person responsible and the list of sources used.

When someone points out an error and provides a source, we check it, correct it where appropriate and record the review date on the relevant page.

The project in numbers

First version: October 2026.

How it is funded

Free for everyone: the test will never cost anything or require registration. At the moment it has no income of any kind (no advertising, no donations, no sale of reports): the costs are paid by the author. No party, government or company pays anything, and it does not accept money from parties, foundations, candidates or campaigns.

If there is ever advertising or donations, we will explain it on the transparency page, which already sets out the rules they will follow: among them, that advertising will never be targeted using your answers or your result.

What data we store

No registration or account: your answers are stored with a random identifier, together with the approximate region and city of your connection, your browser and a keyed hash of your IP address. The hash, the browser and the city are deleted after 12 months.

That hash is used to prevent abuse and cannot be used to recover the original address, so the processing is pseudonymous rather than anonymous. The data published in the barometer is always aggregated, with a minimum of one hundred tests per cell. Full details are in the privacy policy.

Contact

Do you have questions or suggestions, or have you spotted a mistake?

Write to us at kontakt@poliitilinesobivus.ee: a real person replies, and we usually respond within about two weeks.