By Plenary Sessions: Ando Kiviberg
Total Sessions: 37
Fully Profiled: 37
2025-10-15
The 15th Riigikogu, VI Session, Plenary Sitting
The address is highly formal, objective, and procedural, focusing on the detailed reporting of the Constitutional Committee's deliberations and decisions. The style is logical and descriptive, avoiding emotional assessments and referencing the positions held by colleagues and representatives of the Chancellery. The overall tone is explanatory and informative, fitting for a report delivered by the chairman of the lead committee.
2025-10-06
The 15th Riigikogu, 6th Session, Plenary Sitting
The speaker adopts an analytical and questioning style, conveying confusion and a need for supporting arguments. The tone is formal and logical, centered on the observation that the committee discussions failed to provide sufficient justification for easing the language requirements.
2025-09-17
15th Riigikogu, 6th sitting, plenary sitting.
The style is predominantly formal and procedural, focusing on the transmission of committee meeting minutes and responding to inquiries. However, when presenting on behalf of Eesti 200, the tone shifts to urgent and highly persuasive, employing security-based arguments and concrete examples of the Moscow Patriarchate's support for military activity.
2025-09-16
Fifteenth Riigikogu, sixth sitting, plenary sitting.
The style is formal, respectful, and analytical, addressing the Chancellor of Justice with heartfelt thanks and praise for a substantive presentation. The speaker poses a broad, philosophical question regarding the balance between freedom and responsibility, employing a logical line of reasoning. He begins with a brief procedural remark, demonstrating attention to the order of the session.
2025-09-04
15th Riigikogu, extraordinary session of the Riigikogu
The rhetorical style when addressing legislative topics is formal and businesslike, focusing on logical argumentation (resolving inconsistencies). However, one earlier address included a humorous and personal note, referencing a lost apple and the vitamin deficiency of deskmate Juku-Kalle Raid. The overall tone during the presentation of the draft law is moderately persuasive and explanatory.
2025-06-18
15th Riigikogu, 5th session, plenary session
The rhetorical style is corrective and argumentative, aimed at refuting inaccurate information disseminated by opponents. The tone is predominantly logical and legalistic, focusing on facts and the necessity of bringing order to the legal framework. Figurative language is also employed, admonishing opponents not to conjure up a bogeyman where not even the scent of one can be detected.
2025-06-16
XV Riigikogu, V Session, Plenary Sitting
The rhetorical style is passionate, confrontational, and at times ironic, featuring direct addresses and the mocking of opponents. The speaker employs both logical argumentation (competition drives prices down) as well as folksy and emotional language, accusing opponents of pre-election confusion and irrationality. He concludes with an optimistic call to believe and take action.
2025-06-11
15th Riigikogu, 5th session, plenary sitting
The speaker’s rhetorical style varies: on matters of national security, it is forceful and at times combative, stressing that the threat must not be overlooked. In commission presentations, however, the tone is extremely formal, detailed, and procedural, relying heavily on legal facts and citations. Overall, the style remains logical and evidence-based, and the speaker also seeks to reassure colleagues during the debate.
2025-06-10
15th Riigikogu, 5th session, plenary sitting.
The style is formal and analytical, beginning with praise for how informative the presentation was. Direct questions and a strong metaphor ("to stay in the saddle," "bolting") are used to describe the partners' uncertainty. The tone is respectful, but includes criticism regarding inconsistencies within the process.
2025-06-04
15th Riigikogu, 5th session, plenary session
The speaker's style is predominantly formal, procedural, and informative, focusing on the objective presentation of the Constitutional Committee's discussion and procedural decisions. Logical arguments and fact-based information (the positions of the National Audit Office, constitutional considerations) dominate. In the personal viewpoint, a moderate tone is briefly expressed regarding the necessity of solving an acute problem.
2025-06-03
Fifteenth Riigikogu, fifth session, plenary session
The rhetorical style is formal, analytical, and constructive, starting with praise for the minister's comprehensive presentation and acknowledging the necessity of hearing good news. The appeals are primarily logical, supporting the viewpoints with comparisons and economic arguments, such as equating infrastructure construction with the renovation of apartment buildings. The tone is concerned regarding the problems raised, yet remains goal-oriented, focusing intently on finding solutions.
2025-05-14
15th Riigikogu, 5th sitting, plenary session
The style is formal, informative, and procedural, fulfilling the role of the commission's rapporteur. The tone is conciliatory and consensus-seeking, emphasizing a personal readiness "to reach agreement" and make the law unambiguously clear. It utilizes logical arguments and references to the protocol, while avoiding emotional appeals.
2025-04-23
15th Riigikogu, 5th session, plenary session
The rhetorical style is extremely formal, informative, and procedural, focusing on communicating the details of the Constitutional Committee's work to the plenary session. The speaker employs a neutral and objective tone, relying on logical arguments, reading out the precise wording of the draft law and the voting results. Emotional or personal appeals are avoided; instead, the emphasis is placed on consensus and official decisions.
2025-04-21
15th Riigikogu, 5th session, plenary session
The speaker's style is formal, neutral, and procedural, focusing on the precise conveyance of the committee's discussion. They utilize logical arguments (e.g., awaiting the ODIHR report) and emphasize the importance of transparency. Their personal stance is moderate and rational, steering clear of emotional or aggressive tones.
2025-04-16
15th Estonian Parliament, 5th session, plenary session
The style is extremely formal, neutral, and procedural. The address is a detailed overview of the committee meeting, dominated by the presentation of facts, the summarization of colleagues' questions and the minister's answers, and the announcement of procedural decisions. Emotional or personal appeals are absent; the focus is on logical and structured reporting.
2025-04-15
Fifteenth Riigikogu, Fifth Session, Plenary Session.
The style is formal and respectful (when addressing the director and the minister), but the tone is concerned and urgent, highlighting the critical importance of the future of the Estonian language. A logical appeal is employed to define the conflict requiring resolution between copyright protection and language development.
2025-04-09
15th Estonian Parliament, 5th session, plenary session
The style is serious, formal, and argumentative, utilizing strong historical and security-based logical appeals. The tone is urgent and at times combative, especially when describing the actions of the Moscow Patriarchate as "godless" and linking them to the support of conquest, killing, and marauding. Rhetorical questions are used to challenge the opposing side's viewpoints.
2025-03-26
15th Riigikogu, 5th session, plenary session
The rhetorical style is urgent, serious, and emotional, employing strong language and vivid imagery (e.g., "the scoundrel has the taste of blood in his mouth") to describe the Russian threat. The speech is formal, addressing the chairman, colleagues, and the public alike. The speaker utilizes a historical parallel (evoking the spirit of August 20, 1991) and a moral appeal to urge unity and resolve.
2025-03-25
15th Riigikogu, 5th session, plenary session
The style is dual: one speaker is formal, neutral, and focuses on conveying facts about the committee's work. The second speaker is sharply critical and emotional, using strong expressions ("amazing poetry," "spitting out nonsense") to criticize the quality of the Riigikogu debate, but concludes with a specific and simple appeal in support of the draft bill.
2025-02-25
15th Riigikogu, 5th session, plenary session
The rhetorical style is forceful, serious, and decisive, employing strong emotional appeals while describing Russia's actions in Ukraine (killing, raping, and rampaging). The argumentation is balanced, combining moral obligation (defending freedom) with pragmatic political logic (half an effort is better than none). The speaker addresses the presiding officer, colleagues, and viewers watching via the internet, maintaining a formal tone.
2025-02-20
15th Riigikogu, 5th sitting, plenary session.
The language used is formal, respectful, and appreciative, expressing great gratitude to the presenter for raising the topic. The style is analytical, employing social observations and statistical references (Olympic champions from rural areas) to introduce the question. The ultimate goal is substantive clarity, achieved by posing a direct and clarifying question.
2025-02-19
15th Estonian Parliament, 5th session, plenary sitting
The tone of the address is urgent, decisive, and combative, underscoring the anxiety and gravity of the current security situation. It employs both logical arguments (historical context, constitutional obligations) and sharp criticism aimed at opponents, labeling their actions a "farce" and their objections as "spreading falsehoods." The style remains formal, yet it includes strong condemnatory assessments directed at the Kremlin's "secret admirers."
2025-02-12
15th Riigikogu, 5th session, plenary session
The rhetorical style is optimistic and highly appreciative of the ongoing bill, employing phrases such as "congratulations" and "excellent work." However, the style is simultaneously sharply confrontational, criticizing the issue of the prime minister's vote of no confidence as "low-quality public theater." The tone is formal yet emotional, stressing the importance of collaboration and the capacity to look the voters directly in the eye.
2025-02-11
15th Riigikogu, 5th session, plenary sitting
The rhetorical style is formal, factual, and concerned, submitting a comprehensive and detailed question to the minister. Logical argumentation is employed, relying on concrete facts and referencing official sources, while simultaneously highlighting the situation's "dangerous effects."
2025-01-22
15th Estonian Parliament, 5th session, plenary session.
The rhetorical style is initially formal and value-driven, quickly shifting to passionate and sharply condemnatory when criticizing the events in Georgia and the domestic opposition. The speaker employs both emotional appeals (sympathy, sadness, disgust) and logical argumentation, drawing upon the constitution, personal experience, and international reports. The speaker warns that discussing certain topics might necessitate the use of unprintable language.
2025-01-15
15th Riigikogu, 5th session, plenary session
The tone is supportive and optimistic about the draft bill, but includes slight criticism directed at the previous speaker, who is accused of going off-topic and wasting time. The speaker is direct and promises not to take up much time, focusing on rational arguments concerning flexibility and efficiency.
2024-12-18
15th Riigikogu, 4th session, plenary sitting
The speaker’s style is corrective and formal, focusing on drawing attention to a recurring linguistic error observed within the venue. The emphasis is placed squarely on logical and linguistic precision, with specific reference made to a concrete grammatical rule (the singular partitive case).
2024-12-17
15th Riigikogu, 4th session, plenary session
The rhetorical style is sharp, confrontational, and skeptical. The speaker opens with a personal attack, referencing the presenter's "mediocre presentation skills" and questioning their sincerity. The questioning relies on logic and historical precedent to highlight the incompetence involved in drafting the budget.
2024-12-12
15th Riigikogu, 4th session, plenary session
The style is formal and didactic, beginning with polite forms of address ("Mr. Chairman," "esteemed presenter"). The tone is corrective and instructive, emphasizing the importance of intervention and offering knowledge that could also be beneficial to other colleagues.
2024-12-04
15th Estonian Parliament, 4th session, plenary sitting
The rhetorical style is highly formal, procedural, and informative, focusing on reporting the work of the steering committee. The tone is neutral and objective, emphasizing the presentation of facts and the goal of saving time, while avoiding emotional or personal appeals. The speaker is direct and focuses on procedural logic.
2024-11-20
15th Riigikogu, 4th session, plenary sitting
The style is urgent, confrontational, and ideologically charged, sharply criticizing earlier "shy" and "retreatist" behavior. Strong metaphors are employed (e.g., "taking the bull by the horns," "it stank in the corner of our common room") alongside emotional appeal. The speaker equates support for aggression and genocide with cheering on the Holocaust, in order to underscore the moral and security gravity of the issue.
2024-10-14
15th Estonian Parliament, 4th session, plenary sitting
The rhetorical style is formal, analytical, and pragmatic, focusing on logical arguments and highlighting practical problems. The tone is cautiously advisory, emphasizing the need to "keep a finger on the pulse" (or "keep a close watch") to prevent the reform from failing due to financial or organizational reasons. The aim is to achieve a common understanding ("that we all be on the same page").
2024-09-25
15th Riigikogu, 4th sitting, plenary session
The style is formal and businesslike. On the topic of public transport, the tone is skeptical and cautionary ("burning doubt"), employing figurative expressions such as "throwing the baby out with the bathwater and flying into the gutter" and referencing the Yakuts on the bank of the Lena River. The report by the Legal Affairs Committee maintains a neutral, detailed, and procedural style, focusing on the accurate conveyance of facts and debates, including the relaying of questions posed by other colleagues.
2024-09-17
15th Riigikogu, 4th session, plenary session
The rhetorical style is extremely complimentary, friendly, and respectful, focused solely on conveying praise and good wishes. The address is formal and utilizes value-based appeals (such as balance and integrity) without relying on logical arguments or data.
2024-09-16
The 15th Riigikogu, 4th session, plenary sitting.
The style is formal and respectful, politely addressing both the Director and the Minister and thanking them for the presentation. The tone is analytical and concerned, focusing on logical arguments that emphasize the seriousness of cyberattacks and the need to respond quickly with additional investments.
2024-09-11
Fifteenth Riigikogu, fourth session, plenary session
The rhetorical style is formal and analytical, presenting the question as a direct and critical inquiry to the Minister of Defence. The tone is concerned and cautious, referring to the question as "a slightly uncomfortable sort of question." The appeal is logical, focusing on risk analysis and the anticipation of future scenarios.
2024-07-23
15th Riigikogu, extraordinary session of the Riigikogu.
The style is highly formal and procedural, focusing on the recitation of the prescribed text of the oath of office ("I shall deliver the text as required by procedure"). The tone is respectful ("Esteemed colleagues") and appropriately solemn for the occasion.