By Months: Ando Kiviberg
Total Months: 13
Fully Profiled: 13
10.2025
2 Speeches
The rhetorical style is analytical and inquiry-based, focusing on logical justification and procedural clarity. The speaker requires clarification on why certain changes are absolutely necessary, maintaining a neutral and formal tone.
09.2025
41 Speeches
The rhetorical style is predominantly formal, procedural, and analytical, especially when covering committee sessions, where it provides detailed summaries of the debates. However, when addressing security issues, the tone shifts to urgent and confrontational, employing powerful metaphors (e.g., "a weapon of hybrid warfare," "aggression by a mafia gang of Kremlin Chekists"). It strongly appeals to logic and facts, bringing up examples of the Russian Orthodox Church's activities in supporting the war. It also utilizes hypothetical examples (such as Sharia law) to illustrate potential security threats.
06.2025
21 Speeches
The style is formal and comprehensive in commission reports, but shifts to passionate and confrontational during debates, particularly when defending the waste reform. He employs strong emotional appeals (e.g., referencing the opponents' viewpoint as "another great crime against the Estonian people") while simultaneously emphasizing logic, facts, and legal foundations. He is prepared to respond sharply to opponents and criticize them, even hinting at their potential hidden motives.
05.2025
9 Speeches
The rhetorical style is formal, businesslike, and procedural, concentrating on the neutral reporting of the commission's work and deliberations. It employs logical arguments and legal terminology, eschewing emotional appeals, and stresses its function as an information conduit. When responding to inquiries, it maintains caution, declining to offer a personal viewpoint unless it constitutes an official decision of the commission.
04.2025
10 Speeches
When acting as a rapporteur, the style is highly formal, detailed, and procedural, focusing on the neutral presentation of the commission’s debates and decisions. On the subject of church law, however, the tone becomes insistent, serious, and ideologically charged, employing historical facts and strong accusations (KGB, declaring a holy war) to achieve a balance between emotional and logical appeal.
03.2025
4 Speeches
The rhetorical style is twofold: in one instance, it is formal and procedural (commission reports), while in the other, it is extremely combative and direct, criticizing the level of debate as "muck" and "astonishing delusion." Conversely, the supporter of the constitutional amendment employs an urgent, historically charged, and moral tone, emphasizing collective resolve and determination.
02.2025
7 Speeches
The speaker's style is decisive, often urgent, and at times sharply polemical. He uses strong metaphors and judgments, referring to political opponents as "low-quality folk theater" and certain activities as "a farce." He relies on both historical arguments (the history of the MP) and value-based rhetoric, emphasizing the protection of Estonian independence and constitutional order.
01.2025
3 Speeches
The speaker's style is formal, but becomes highly passionate and combative when defending values, employing strong moral language and emotional appeals. He sharply criticizes opponents, accusing them of spreading Kremlin viewpoints and covering up lies ("they themselves were completely brazen/shameless while lying"). Emphasis is placed on logical argumentation and evidence-based examples (e.g., the content of the OSCE report and cases of torture that occurred in Georgia).
12.2024
4 Speeches
The speaker’s style is predominantly formal and businesslike, but he also employs sharp criticism. He is direct, accusing one presenter of "mediocre presentation skills" and questioning his sincerity. He repeatedly interrupts with pedantic linguistic corrections, stressing that this knowledge could benefit his colleagues. His appeals are primarily logical and procedural.
11.2024
1 Speeches
The rhetorical style is urgent, confrontational, and strongly value-driven, emphasizing the necessity of action following the events of February 2022. Sharp metaphors are employed ("to grab the bull by the horns," "it stank in the corner of our shared room") alongside emotionally charged terms such as "colonizers," "fascist regime," and "genocide." Logical arguments (security considerations) are interwoven with moral condemnation, asserting that supporting aggression is not merely a matter of dissent.
10.2024
4 Speeches
The style in political discussions is deliberate, logical, and cautious, focusing on problem prevention and practical considerations. He uses phrases like "to keep tabs on things" and "a good idea wouldn't go sideways." Furthermore, the speaker uses humor and anecdotes (the lost apple) in short remarks, which suggests an ability to establish informal communication with colleagues.
09.2024
8 Speeches
The style is formal and analytical, while simultaneously employing figurative and emotional expressions, especially when delivering criticism (e.g., "fiery doubt," "throwing the baby out with the bathwater and flying into the gutter"). He/She is capable of posing sharp, uncomfortable questions, but also of expressing sincere appreciation (to the Chancellor of Justice) for their balance and adherence to principles. The argumentation is often built upon personal experience and logical deduction.
07.2024
1 Speeches
The address is extremely formal and businesslike, strictly adhering to the procedural rules of the Riigikogu during the taking of the oath of office. The tone is solemn and dutiful, emphasizing compliance with law and order. The phrasing is simple and direct, avoiding emotional or logical appeals.