By Months: Mario Kadastik
Total Months: 17
Fully Profiled: 17
10.2025
4 Speeches
The political focus is currently directed towards regulatory oversight and market stability within the telecommunications sector. The speaker voiced concerns regarding the potential market volatility resulting from accelerating number portability, which could undermine long-term investments. The position is primarily policy-driven, emphasizing the necessity of ensuring pricing transparency.
09.2025
22 Speeches
The political position is cautious and pragmatic, focusing on rejecting bills that are narrow, ineffective, or fail to solve the actual problem (e.g., insurance for scooters and trailers). The speaker stresses the need for comprehensive solutions and regulation based on statistics, opposing the overly strict transposition of the European Union directive. He criticizes political opponents who, in his estimation, use these issues as "propaganda" to gain votes.
06.2025
8 Speeches
The focus is heavily placed on boosting economic competitiveness through innovation, research and development (R&D), and the reorganization of the energy sector. The approach is strongly policy- and results-driven, highlighting the government coalition's new priorities and the rational basis of the implemented measures. An urgent priority also involves reducing bureaucracy and transposing the relevant EU directive to cease the payment of daily penalties. The political direction is clearly geared toward increasing added value and raising productivity.
05.2025
27 Speeches
A strong advocate for energy policy reforms, particularly the reduction of bureaucracy and the promotion of renewable energy investments via fixed connection fees. The political focus is on improving the technically regulated market and enhancing security of supply, while strongly rejecting oil shale energy and criticizing opponents' exaggerated cost projections. The framework is predominantly political and technical, centered on establishing predictability through legislation.
04.2025
44 Speeches
In terms of policy, the speaker's key themes are energy security, lowering electricity prices, and achieving renewable energy targets (100% by 2030), while emphasizing that onshore wind power is the only viable short-term solution. He strongly supports exiting the Russian energy system (BRELL) and views this as a significant security victory. His positions are predominantly policy- and fact-based, standing in contrast to populist claims and skepticism.
03.2025
15 Speeches
The speaker is a strong proponent of investments in renewable energy and energy security, stressing that renewable energy is rationally cheaper than fossil fuels. He supports the coalition’s major goals, such as increasing defense spending to 5% of GDP and the plan to establish a nuclear power plant. At the same time, he sharply criticizes the current trend in science policy that favors applied sciences at the expense of fundamental research, seeing this as a risk of eroding core competencies.
01.2025
6 Speeches
The political focus is on energy sector regulations, supporting grid connection terms that facilitate the development of renewable and nuclear energy, and covering the fixed costs required to maintain oil shale reserves. The speaker emphasizes the necessity of remedying the constitutional infringement, supporting the proposal of the Chancellor of Justice despite the opposing view held by the European Commission. Their approach is heavily policy- and regulation-driven, focusing on technical feasibility and legal clarity.
12.2024
1 Speeches
The political focus centers on the actual impact of cutting expense reimbursements for Riigikogu members and on ensuring financial transparency. The speaker casts doubt on whether the cut will yield substantive savings, suggesting instead that it might simply be a reduction in the repair fund. The stance taken is primarily procedural and geared towards financial analysis, demanding clarity regarding the measure's true effect.
11.2024
3 Speeches
The speaker's main political position is strong support for the abolition of the income tax hump, emphasizing that this will benefit average wage earners, such as teachers and emergency workers. He adopts a corrective and fact-based stance aimed at fixing the opponents' alleged "nonsense" and procedural violations. The political framework is strongly policy-driven and focuses on economic justice.
10.2024
2 Speeches
The speaker's position is focused on the legislative procedure and technical regulations, particularly concerning the turnover thresholds for vertical integration. He/She emphasizes the need to consider a political decision: whether to maintain the limit at 10 million, given the size of the Estonian market, or to raise it to the EU-allowed 50 million. The need for legal clarity regarding the hybrid solution established by the ministerial regulation is also stressed, indicating a policy- and procedure-centric approach.
09.2024
20 Speeches
The political focus is on accelerating the deployment of renewable energy, which is being treated as a temporary and essential measure to resolve the European energy crisis. Support for this is strong, highlighting the framework derived from policies and directives that remains in effect until the summer of 2025. The stance is clearly policy- and results-driven, emphasizing the socio-economic benefit manifested in falling electricity prices.
06.2024
7 Speeches
The speaker strongly advocates for establishing a legal framework for nuclear energy, stressing the importance of energy security, climate neutrality, and economic competitiveness. Furthermore, they are firmly in favor of international scientific cooperation (specifically, full CERN membership) and the resulting benefits for entrepreneurship. They also oppose authoritarian state control over the internet, prioritizing education and parental responsibility instead.
05.2024
50 Speeches
The political position is strongly technology-based and forward-looking, firmly supporting e-voting, preparation for the adoption of nuclear energy, and high added-value exports. The focus is on strategic goals such as energy security, climate targets, and the structural transformation of the economy, and the viewpoints are primarily policy- and results-driven. On behalf of the Reform Party, it supports the clarification of the legal framework for e-elections and will initiate a Riigikogu (Parliament) decision to support the adoption of nuclear energy.
04.2024
13 Speeches
The political position focuses strongly on long-term energy security and enhancing Estonia's competitiveness through the establishment of a nuclear energy framework. The speaker also supports the rapid and pragmatic transposition of EU directives in the form of administrative procedures to avoid infringement fines. His/Her approach is predominantly policy- and fact-based, emphasizing the detrimental effects of postponing future decisions. Furthermore, he/she supports the technical reliability of existing critical systems, such as e-elections.
03.2024
31 Speeches
The political position is strongly focused on a long-term (30-year) and vision-based energy policy, stressing investment certainty and decarbonization. He/She considers tackling the climate crisis and phasing out fossil fuels to be paramount, strongly supporting the development of renewable energy (wind, solar) and nuclear energy. He/She emphasizes that the long-term plan is not solely the concern of his/her party (Eesti 200) but requires broad national consensus.
02.2024
1 Speeches
The political focus is directed toward processing the draft Energy Market Act and forwarding the work of the Economic Affairs Committee. The speaker is acting as a procedural lead, emphasizing the necessity of bringing the legislation into alignment with the current market situation (the termination of the universal service). Personally, the speaker expressed interest in Energiasalv's appeal and resolving the bottlenecks associated with the draft law.
01.2024
1 Speeches
The political focus is on structural reforms within the science system and the long-term sustainability of its funding. The speaker moderately supports the need to increase the long-term component (base funding) of research projects to prevent the disappearance of academic schools of thought in certain fields. This position is clearly policy- and structure-centric, emphasizing the importance of long-term stability.